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Title: Diggers in the Earth

Author: Eva March Tappan

Release Date: March 6, 2008 [EBook #24762]

Language: English

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THE INDUSTRIAL READERS

_Book II_

DIGGERS IN THE
EARTH

BY

EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D.

_Author of "England's Story," "American Hero Stories,"
"Old World Hero Stories," "Story of the Greek People,"
"Story of the Roman People," etc. Editor of
"The Children's Hour."_

[Illustration]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

THE INDUSTRIAL READERS

By Eva March Tappan

I. THE FARMER AND HIS FRIENDS. 50 cents.

II. DIGGERS IN THE EARTH. 50 cents.

III. MAKERS OF MANY THINGS. 50 cents.

IV. TRAVELERS AND TRAVELING. 50 cents.

The foregoing are list prices, postpaid

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY EVA MARCH TAPPAN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_First printing April 1916;_
_Reprinted December 1916_

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
U. S. A.

PREFACE

The four books of this series have been written not merely to provide
agreeable reading matter for children, but to give them information.
When a child can look at a steel pen not simply as an article
furnished by the city for his use, but rather as the result of many
interesting processes, he has made a distinct growth in intelligence.
When he has begun to apprehend the fruitfulness of the earth, both
above ground and below, and the best way in which its products may be
utilized and carried to the places where they are needed, he has not
only acquired a knowledge of many kinds of industrial life which may
help him to choose his life-work wisely from among them; but he has
learned the dependence of one person upon other persons, of one part
of the world upon other parts, and the necessity of peaceful
intercourse. Best of all, he has learned to see. Wordswort