something white all over the grass. What can it be?'

'Chalk?' Dora asked.

'No, they never would be so silly! Let us go and see.'

2. Up they got, and away they went. They found that the white things
lying about on the grass were bits of turnip.

Harry picked one up and looked at it. It was only a round rind: all the
inside had been eaten out.

3. He took it home with him to show to his mother, and she said:

'I saw some bits like this that were shooting out green leaves when
spring came. They had been lying out on the ground in the winter, yet
there was so much life in them that they could grow again. But, come,
wash your hands: dinner is ready, and I have something to tell you. We
are going to have turnips for dinner!'

[Illustration: He took it home with him to show to his mother.]

4. When Harry had his helping of turnips he said:

'Now I am a sheep!'

'No,' said Dora, 'the sheep don't boil their turnips, or mash them with
nice butter.'

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.

2. Dora unrolled one or two of these tendrils, and then watched them
roll up again. She thought:

'How funny it is of the plant to put these out on purpose to take hold
of the sticks! And how pretty the f