could not carry them all. Then Mr. Fulton had several other boats built. He became famous very soon, and got more work building boats than he could do.

He was employed by our government to build a great war ship, and to make torpedoes for blowing up vessels by exploding under water. He knew so much about machinery and navigation that he was able to do a great deal for our country.

After his death great steamers were built to cross the ocean in a few days instead of weeks, as they had done before. If he had not lived and studied about these things, we might still have been traveling in these slow sailing vessels.

And people found that the steam engine which could move boats upon the water could also move cars upon the land, and so this mode of travel was adopted, and perhaps for this, too, we have Robert Fulton to thank.

LANGUAGE.

WHAT WE LIVE IN.

We have been talking of the blacksmith and the materials which he uses, the miner and his work of getting from the ground the materials which the blacksmith, the jeweler and others use.

Ask pupils to each give the name of something belonging to mineral kingdom, obtained from the ground. What use do we make of these things, aside from those uses of which we [have spoken?

Of what are our houses made? (Brick, stone, wood.) Where do these things come from? Of what is brick made? Where do we get the clay? Of what are the windows made? Where do we get glass? (Glass is made of sand.) What do we put on the outside of our houses to keep them weather proof and to make them look better? (Paint is made of something dug from the ground.)

What keeps the timbers and boards in place? these nails made? Where does iron come from?

Of what are What is used

to make roofs for houses? Who lives in a house with a slate roof? Where does the slate come from? With what are houses plastered? Where do we get the sand and lime? (Lime is made from a stone which comes from the ground.) How many things there are which come from the ground. Everything that one uses in building a house. And one very important thing belonging to the vegetable kingdom, with which we heat our houses and of which we build most of our houses, barns, bridges, and fences. (Wood.) What part of a house is made first? Of what is the foundation made? The framework? Which kind of a house do you like best? Is your house made of brick, stone or wood? Of what are most of the houses in this town built? On this street? Of what material

is the school-house built?

DRAWING.-HOUSES.

What type forms do most of our houses resemble? Who lives in a square house? Who lives in a house shaped something like a square prism? What part of our houses is shaped like a triangular prism? (Roof.) What part or parts of our houses are shaped like the cylinder? Through what does the water run into our houses? Where does it come from? What shape is the tower at the water works? Build Build your house with building blocks.

DRAWING AND SEAT WORK.

Draw your own home, and the school-house. Paint both. Cut your house and barn, and the school-house, and mount on colored paper. Cut out and paste American, Eskimo, and Indian towns. Build these towns also with clay and paper. Use the square and triangular prisms and cubes for American houses. Model the hemisphere and cone for Eskimo and Indian villages.

Make paper houses by folding and creasing paper around the solids; paste triangular prisms on square prisms for roofs. Model from clay American houses, based on cube, square prism,

and right triangular prism: arrange in the form of a town on the sand table.

On another part of sand table make an Eskimo town, based upon the hemisphere, and an Indian town, using the cone or pyramid as a model.

Lay houses and barns with sticks. Build fences. Lay window of house, showing number of panes in window.

Draw or paint a window showing potted plant on window sill; instead of using paints for this, use brushes and ink, show. ing pots and plant in silhouette.

Build carpenter's bench, tool-chest, saw-horse, ladder. Cut, draw, or lay them with sticks.

BLOCK CITY.

What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home.

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me;

A kirk and a mill, and a palace beside,

And a harbor as well, where my vessels may ride.

Great is the palace with pillar and wall,
A sort of a tower on top of it all;
And steps coming down in an orderly way
To where my toy vessels lay safe in the bay.
This one is sailing and that one is moored-
Hark to the song of the sailors on board;
And see on the steps of my palace the kings,
Coming and going with presents and things.

-Robert Louis Stevenson.

THE CARPENTER.

Think of all the men who must help to secure and prepare material for our houses. Think how many men must work to get them ready. What do we call the man who prepares the stone for the foundation? (Stone-cutter.) The man who lays the foundation and builds the chimneys? (The mason or bricklayer.) The man who plasters? The man who who paints? Hangs paper? Lays the water pipes? The man who erects the frame-work? (Carpenter.) What does a carpenter do? What beside building houses? Who has ever been in a carpenter's shop? Tell about it. Tell of some of the tools which carpenters use in building? (Saw, ax, hatchet, knife, augers, gimlets, bits and brace, hammer, mallet, wedge, crowbar, rule, square, chalk-line, plumb-line, plane, scraper, file, and sand-paper.) Uses of these tools? What material does he use for building? (Boards, siding, laths, rafters, braces, planks and shingles.) What kind of a horse does the carpenter use? (Saw-horse.)

LITERATURE.

"Little Deeds of Kindness," in the Child's World.

"The Carpenter," Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks. Wiltse.

"Gutta Percha Willie," George McDonald. "An Old Fashioned Rhyme," E. Poulsson.

SONGS.

"The Carpenter," E. Smith, No. 1.

"The Carpenter," K. D. Wiggin's Song Book. "Building Song," K. D. Wiggin's Song Book. "Busy Carpenter," Patty Hill Songs.

THE WOODMAN.

The woodman to the forest goes,

Cuts down the trees with sturdy blows;
They're dragged by oxen slow and strong
To where the river flows along,

To where the winding river flows along.