into the sack for a long time, and
then Harry asked:

'How was paper made before there was old paper to make it of?'

10. 'Oh, it is not made of paper only. It is made of old rags, old
ropes'----

Harry and Dora began to laugh.

'And straw, and wood, and a kind of grass'----

'Now, are you joking, mother?'

11. 'No, indeed! They cut the wood and straw into tiny bits, and they
cut and tear the rags and boil them.'

'And what do they do with the grass?'

'They cut it up, boil it, and mix clay with it. Then it is put through a
very clever machine, which makes it into paper.'

A FLY.

[Illustration]

spilt
won'-der
e-nough'
fel'-low
thirst'-y
mouth
su'-gar
teeth
ceil'-ing
ei'-ther
win'-dow
pane
won'-der-ful
straight
count'-ed
friend

1. 'Just look here, Harry!' Dora called out.

A little milk had been spilt on the table, and two flies had found it
out.

'We won't wipe it up! Let us wait and see if they can take it all. See,
it is getting less! I wonder how they do it.'

2. 'There! one fly has gone. He has had enough. But this old fellow is
very thirsty. He does not look as if he were drinking, and yet the milk
goes. That long thing must be his mouth. Is it, mother?'

[Illustration: Enlarged view of Head of Fly showing Trunk.]

3. 'It is called his trunk. The mouth is at the end of it. He is very
clever with it. Do you know that he never eats? He only drinks.'

4. 'But I have seen him eating sugar.'

'No; I don't think you have. He has no teeth and no jaws. He can't bite
anything. What he does is to wet the sugar with his mouth and melt it,
and then suck it up.'

5. 'Well, that is clever! I wonder how he found out how to do it. And I
know something else that he is clever at.'

6. 'What is it, Harry?' asked Dora.

'Something you can't do! He can walk on the ceiling.'

'You can't do it either,' said Dora.

'How does he hold on, mother? We can see one up there now! He walks
about as if he were on the table.'

[Illustration: Enlarged view of Fly's Foot.]

7. 'He has something like gum inside his feet, and, when he wants to
stand or walk upside down, he presses this out, and it helps him to
stick on. Here is another fly walking up the window-pane.'

'I have often seen flies on the window-pane.'

8. 'How wonderful it is! The glass, you see, is smooth and hard, and it
stands straight up. We could not go up a hil