Written Exercise:

Write a story about one of them.

If you have ever been a newsboy, write your experiences.

Conversation:

Have people always had newspapers?

In what way do newspapers help us?

What is the man at the head of the newspaper called? What does he do?

How many newspapers do you know that are published in your town? Write their names.

Write on the blackboard or on paper the names of all the papers that you know or have in your homes.

With what kind of letter does each word in the name of a paper begin?

Write a rule for this. When your teacher approves of the rule, copy it in your notebook.

James Watt was the first man to make a steam engine that would draw a wagon or a car. He never would have succeeded in doing this, if he had not learned when a boy to do three things.

He learned to observe closely what was going on about him, so that he saw many things which others often did not notice at all. He also learned to think

about what he observed, and to find out the causes. The third thing that he learned was to use tools skillfully.

James was not a strong boy and he could not play much with the other boys. So his mother gave him a set of tools, and he played and worked with them, until he could use them handily and make a great many things. This was his manual training, and he found it very useful when he became a man, and especially when he was making his steam engine.

He was always a close observer, and even when a little boy was watching and watching to see what he could find out, especially in nature. This was his nature study.

One day James was visiting his aunt. There was a tea kettle on the fire, and he watched it for a long time. His aunt thought he was idle and at length said to him :

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"I never saw such an idle boy as you are. book or do something useful. For the last hour you have not spoken one word, but you have been taking off the lid of that tea kettle and putting it on again, holding now a cup and now a silver spoon over the steam, watching how it rises from the spout, catching and counting the drops as they fall. Are you not ashamed of spending your time in that way?"

But James was not idle. He was observing, and when he became a great man and came to make steam engines, his manual training and his nature study he found were among his best friends.

Tell this story.

If you can find any other stories of Watt, tell them in class.

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Name all the uses of steam that you can think

Tell about the largest steam engine you ever

saw.

Would you like to be an engineer? Why?

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LESSON LXXI

THE SICK FRIEND

Study of a Picture

Who is the sick friend?

What do you think is the matter with him?
What is the taller girl doing?

Tell orally as long a story as you can from the picture.

Write a paragraph describing the wagon and its occupant.

Write another describing the doctor as you imagine him.

Write in three paragraphs the story of the picture. Give names to all the children, both surnames and given names, and write their conversation with the doctor.

Select the best conversation. Copy it on the blackboard. Then choose parts and act the story.

Kindness to Animals

The merciful man is merciful to his beast.- PROVERB.

Discuss in class reasons why we should treat animals with kindness.

Write a story telling of kindness to animals.

Write a rule for your own treatment of animals and copy it in your notebook.