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. Harry picked up one of the bricks and looked at it, and then Dora
must look at one too.

4. They found that the bricks were light and easy to lift. They also
saw that they were all of the same size and shape, as if they had been
made, and not dug out of the ground.

[Illustration]

5. They did not like to ask the men about them, and so they put the
bricks down, and set off on their way home.

6. As they went they met their teacher, who stopped and spoke to them,
so Harry asked her to tell them what bricks really were.

7. 'I wish there were a brick-field near,' she said, 'and then we would
go and see it! But I can tell you a little about it.

8. 'Bricks are made of clay, and clay is dug out of the ground. Men dig
it before winter comes, and let it lie out all the winter, and the frost
breaks it up nicely for them.

9. 'The next thing is to mix it well into a paste, and then it is put
into moulds.'

'What are moulds?' Harry asked.

'Well, these moulds are like boxes with no bottom or top.'

'Only sides, then?' said Dora.

10. 'Yes, they have two long sides, and two short ones, and they hold
the soft, wet clay.

'You may call them clay-puddings before they are put into the hot oven.
When they are taken out, what do you think they are? They are bricks!'

[Illustration]

A DONKEY.

[Illustration]

bot'-tom
lane
don'-key
load
fruit
this'-tles
hedge
rough
ap-ple
car'-rot
touch
mor'-row
feast
win'-dow
shag'-gy
tuft

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