you think that was way out there? A bell buoy rocking
on the water! Every time the wave went up it said, "ding" and every time
the wave went down it said, "dong."

By this time the old steamer was out of the harbor way out in the open
sea. The pilot came down from the captain's deck; he climbed down the
rope ladder to the little pilot boat that was tied close to the big
steamer. Then the little pilot boat pushed away into the fog calling:

[Illustration: Musical Score
"Too too toot too toot I'm go-ing go-ing home"]

And again the big steamer answered:

"Toot, toot, I'm moving."

Then way off on the left so far away it could barely hear it, it heard:

[Illustration: Musical Score
"Don't hit me, toot toot, don't hit me, toot toot"]

And that was a sail boat! Then way off on the right so far away it could
barely hear it, it heard

"Toot, toot, I'm moving"

and that was another steamer.

[Illustration]

And again the big steamer answered:

"Toot, toot, I'm moving."

And so the old steamer went out into the fog calling, calling so that no
boat would hit it. And all the other boats that passed it, they went
calling, calling too.

HAMMER AND SAW AND PLANE

This story is a slight extension of the children's own experience. It is
purposely limited to the tools they themselves handle familiarly.

HAMMER AND SAW AND PLANE

Once there was a carpenter. He had built himself a fine new house. And
now it was all done. The walls, the floors and the roof were done. The
stairs were done. The windows and doors were done. And the carpenter had
moved into his new house.

In his house he had a stove and he had electric lights. He had beds and
chairs and bureaus and bookcases. He had everything except a table to
eat off of. He still had to stand up when he ate his meals!

So the carpenter thought he would make him a table. But he had no lumber
left. So off he went to the lumber mill. At the lumber mill he saw lots
and lots of lumber piled in the yard. The carpenter told the man at the
lumber mill just how much lumber he wanted and just how long he wanted
it and how broad he wanted it and how thick he wanted it.

So the man at the lumber mill put all this lumber,--just what the
carpenter had ordered,--on a wagon and sent it out to the carpenter's
house.

And then the carpenter began. He said to himself, "First I must make my
boards just the rig