of slate?'

'I think so,' said Harry.

Dora was not quite sure.

8. 'Yes, we will put the slate into the box. It is not a metal, but it
came out of the ground. Now, what do you say to this?' And he pulled out
a lump that looked like earth and stone.

9. What could this be? It was iron, just as it had come out of the
ground, with clay and earth about it.

10. 'Once upon a time,' said father, 'the kettle, and the poker, and the
fender, all looked like this!'

THE FAIRY RING.

danc'-ing
fair'-y
queen
sea'-sons
year
cir'-cle
sphere
sum'-mer
glide
au'-tumn
tress'-es
cheeks

1. Let us dance and let us sing,
Dancing in a merry ring;
We'll be fairies on the green,
Sporting round the fairy queen.

2. Like the seasons of the year
Round we circle in a sphere;
I'll be Summer, you'll be Spring,
Dancing in a fairy ring.

3. Spring and Summer glide away,
Autumn comes with tresses gay;
Winter, hand-in-hand with Spring,
Dancing in a fairy ring.

4. Faster, faster round we go,
While our cheeks with roses glow,
Free as birds upon the wing,
Dancing in a fairy ring.

NEEDLES.

PART 1.

treat
hol'-i-days
aunt
nee'-dles
coils
steel
wire
wrapped
stretched
straight
ma-chine'
un'-cle
mid'-dle
chop'-ping
dropped
e-nough'

1. Harry and Dora once had a great treat.

They went in the holidays to stay with an uncle and aunt who lived at a
town where needles were made. We may call it Needle-town.

2. While they were there, they were taken to the mills to see the
needles made.

3. The first room into which they went was very warm. It was called the
wire-room. A workman who was there told them that it was filled with hot
air night and day, so that no damp should come in and spoil the steel.

4. All round the room coils of steel-wire were hanging. They were
wrapped up in paper, but the man took some of them down and let them
look in. They saw that one coil was of very thick wire, while another
was of wire as fine as a hair.

5. 'One of these coils would be more than a mile long if it were
stretched out straight,' the man told Harry. 'Would you like to take
hold of this one?'

But Harry found it too heavy, and it was hung up again on the wall.

6. Then they