They carry the sap that feeds the leaves.'
8. 'What is sap?'
'The blood of plants and trees.'
'Oh,' said Dora, 'then that is the wet that comes out when I pick a
flower or cut a leaf!
9. 'But look at this!' and she held up one of the sprays.
At the end of it was a little bunch of white, curly roots. Each root was
not much thicker than a thread.
10. 'Don't touch them,' said the mother; 'roots are very tender things.'
'What is the good of them?' asked Dora.
'What is your mouth useful for?' asked her mother.
11. 'Oh, do you mean that the ivy eats and drinks?'
'Yes, that is what I mean. These roots take out of the water, or out of
the earth, all sorts of things good for the food of the plant. They then
send them up into the stem and on into the leaves.'
12. 'Mother,' said Harry, 'let us go and plant all this ivy. I am sure
it wants to try the taste of the earth!'
A TREE.
rab'-bits
shoots
ta'-ble
spread
rough
heard
birch
beech
branch'-es
caught
oak
found
1. 'Let us go over to that log where we sat when we saw the rabbits,'
said Dora to Harry.
2. 'All right! We can play at ship, and the grass shall be the sea.
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