'
5. 'But raw turnip is very nice,' said her father. 'I have often eaten
one out in the fields. I am not at all sorry for the sheep.'
6. 'I have heard,' said mother, 'that, when corn was very dear, people
had to use turnips in making bread. They say the bread looked good, and
kept well. The water was first pressed out of the turnips, and then they
were mixed with wheat-meal.'
7. 'I wish you would make some, mother,' said Dora, 'just for fun, to
see what it is like.'
'I will--some day.'
8. 'What did you mean, mother,' Harry asked, 'about water in turnips?'
'There is a great deal of water in turnips,' said mother.
9. 'Turnips are nearly all water,' said father.
'Now, father, you must be joking,' cried Harry.
'No, I am not. Am I, mother?'
Mother smiled, and said 'No.'
GREEN PEAS.
PART 1.
peas
flow'-ers
ten'-drils
un-rolled'
watched
thought
pur'-pose
but'-ter-flies
half
count'-ed
true
flow'-er
with'-er
stayed
shin'-y
touched
1. Dora was alone in the garden. She had played about till she was
tired, when she found herself close to the bed of peas. She had seen her
father sow the peas, and now there were tall plants with leaves and
flowers and green tendrils.
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