'Yes, long before that! It was hundreds and thousands of years ago.
It was so far back that the trees were not like the trees we have now.
Many of them were big ferns. Think of a fern grown up to be a tree! And
many were great horse-tails. You know what a horse-tail is?'
9. 'Oh yes,' said Dora, 'we find them in the ditch down the lane. It is
such fun pulling them to pieces and putting them together again--like
puzzles!'
[Illustration: Horse-tail.]
10. 'Those trees must have been very strange,' said Harry. 'They would
not be nice to climb. But there were no boys in those days, so it did
not matter.'
[Illustration]
FIRE.
min'-er-al
coal
fen'-der
prop'-er
walk'-ing
laugh'-ing
grate
cru'-el
Lon'-don
smoke
al-read'-y
flame
blaze
beast
cage
pic'-tures
1. 'Don't you think,' said Harry, 'that a bit of coal would be a good
thing for our mineral box?'
2. 'I do,' said his father. 'Get a little lump, and put it in. And, by
the way, we want more coal on the fire. I must get some.'
3. 'How nice a fire is on a cold day!' said Dora, sitting down on the
fender, to be as near to it as she could.
'Very nice,' said her mother, 'in its proper place--in the grate.
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