'
8. 'Well, I shall call it the coat. It is the tree's overcoat to keep
him warm and dry. But trees do not all seem to have rough coats. Look at
that one!' and she ran over to a little birch, and pulled off some of
its thin bark.
9. 'I have found a fine tree!' cried Harry; and Dora came running to
look at it.
[Illustration: Leaves of the Beech and the Oak.]
10. It was a beech, with a great round smooth trunk and long strong
branches. Harry jumped up and caught at a leaf or two, and then went to
pick an oak-leaf. He laid them side by side on his hand and looked at
them, and found they were not at all alike.
BRICKS.
stopped
emp'-ty
mor'-tar
sound
trow'-el
struck
picked
size
teach'-er
re'-al-ly
clay
win'-ter
breaks
moulds
nice'-ly
ov'-en
1. Two men were making a wall by the road-side, and Harry and Dora
stopped to look at them.
2. Another man was going away with a horse and cart. The cart was empty,
but it had been full of red bricks. The men were putting these bricks on
the wall and making them fast with mortar.
3. Dora liked the sound which the trowel made when it struck against the
wall.
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