two quite red.

11. They agreed to leave them for the birds. Dora said 'They would be
sure to want them in the winter.'

[Illustration]

WOOD.

[Illustration: Making the Doll's House.]

min'-er-al
cop'-per
zinc
chalk
gummed
climbed
knees
eve'-nings
tools
dead
thought
oak
beech
birch
wil'-low
build'-ing

1. The little mineral box was made, and Harry and Dora put in the lumps
of lead, iron, copper, tin, zinc, chalk, and slate. Father wrote the
names on tiny slips of paper and gummed them on.

2. Then he said that he was going to make Dora a doll's house. On
hearing this, Dora first jumped about for joy, and then climbed up on
her father's knees to kiss and hug him.

3. The doll's house was not made all at once. It had to be done bit by
bit in the evenings after father had come home from work and had his
tea.

4. Dora and Harry always helped him, or stood by and talked, played with
bits of wood, and turned over the tools in the box.

5. They said that saw-dust should be called wood-dust; and they found
out that wood was called tree when it was alive, and tree was called
wood when it was dead. They thought this very funny.

6. They also learned that there were as many kinds of wood as there were
trees.

'Some wood is hard,' said their father, 'some is half-hard, and some is
soft.'

'Soft wood!' cried Dora.

7. 'Well, not soft like butter! But softer than oak, beech, birch, and
elm'----

'The trunk of an oak-tree is lying where the rabbits live,' said Harry,
in a great hurry. 'We often play on it. I know that it is hard. What
sort of wood are you making the doll's house of?'

8. 'Soft wood. It is a bit of pine. So is the box that holds the
minerals. I should find it hard work to cut oak.

'Now, there is one kind of wood so soft that you can bend it. It is
called willow, and baskets are made of it.

'But oak was once used in building the great strong ships.'

COAL.

PART 1.

win'-dow
shov'-el
spade
coal
tum'-bled
con-tent'
won'-der-ing
earth
cage
stretch'-ing
en'-gine
doz'-en

1. 'Here comes the coal,' said Harry, looking out of the window.
'Mother, may we help Jim to get it in? I can have the big shovel, and
Dora the little one. I should like to see the cart upset! What fun it
will be!'

2. Crash came the coal on the ground. Then the coal-man dr