'
'Shells!' said Dora, trying to see them better.
'Were live things ever in them?' asked Harry, and put a finger into the
cup to fish some out.
7. 'Yes, long, long ago. That bit of chalk had hundreds and hundreds of
shells in it. Now, mother, it is your turn! I have had mine. What do you
know about chalk?'
8. Mother smiled and began: 'There was once a very deep sea, full of
live things, little and big. And on the top of the water were crowds of
tiny things in shells, that put out long arms like threads to catch
their food.
9. 'When they died they all dropped to the bottom of the sea, and lay
there. The shells were so very little that they made a sort of mud when
they were mixed with the water.
'And now the mud is dry, and we call it chalk!'
THE MOUSE.
an'-i-mal
noise
mouse
cheese
har'-vest
stalk
should
four
tail
nib'-ble
young
beasts
squeak
hours
leaves
catch
1. Harry came running in one day to say that he had seen a little animal
in the field.
2. 'It ran so fast, I could hardly see it. I looked a long time for it,
and so did Dora, but we could not find it. Now, what do you think it
could be, mother?'
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