2. She gave me half a dollar, and told me that I must get thirty cents in change. If the storekeeper had given me a quarter and a nickel, I should have known that I had the thirty cents; but he gave me in change one ten-cent piece, two nickels, and a lot of cents.

3. I could not tell how much they all made, and ran home with the money to see if it was right.

4. Mother said she thought I ought to learn to make change, and so every day she and I played store, until I could always tell how to change any piece of money.

5. I found that in a dollar there were one hundred cents, or two half-dollars, or four quarters, or ten dimes, or twenty nickels.

6. Then I knew that in a half-dollar there were fifty cents, or two quarters, or five dimes, or ten nickels; and that in a quarter there were twenty-five cents, or two dimes and one nickel, or five nickels.

7. As a nickel is a five-cent piece, and a dime is a ten-cent piece, it was not very long before I could take my change-box and count out just the change that mother asked for.

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Ten cents make one dime. A dime is made of silver. A nickel is five cents.

1. Cent, piece, dollar, quarter, half, twenty, dime, hundred, nickel, change.

2. What is the sound of c in piece? of qu in quarter? Find a name-word and an action-word in the fourth paragraph, and two of each in the seventh. Group the words in the seventh paragraph. Change half to make it mean more than one. Change to questions the following sentences: "Mother sent me; "She gave me; "She told me; "Mother said." What words can you make, using thing with other words (no, some, any) ?

XIII. NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, AND WEST.

1. "Little boy, is the schoolhouse north of you?"

2. "North of me? Let me think. There is the sun. It is just rising.

3. "I know it always rises in the east. I will stand with my face to the sun. There! Now I am looking to the east. My right

hand points to the south, and my left hand to the north.

4. "Yes, the schoolhouse is north of me. My papa's house is east of me, and the dog is running to the west.

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5. The boys are playing south of the schoolhouse, but north of me. The west is back of me, and the sun will set there tonight. North, south, east, and west. I know where they all are.'

Now

The sun rises in the East.

The sun sets in the West.

1. Schoolhouse, right, south, east, west, rising, rises, just. 2. Is the boy east of the dog? Is the schoolhouse north of

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the boys? Is the little boy south of the boys? Is the house west of the sun? What sound has a in what? Has it the same sound as o in on? a=Ŏ What words can you make from rise? What would eastward mean? Put ward with other words where it will have the meaning "in the direction of" (up, down, in, out, south, north, west).

XIV. USEFUL PLANTS.

1. See how red this beet is! I have just pulled it out of the ground. Who put it there?

2. No one put it there. I plant a beet seed in the earth, and soon the beet

grows there.

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3. Many things, such beets, potatoes, and turnips, that are good to eat, grow under ground.

4. But more things that we like to eat grow in the bright

sunlight. Beans, peas, apples, melons, cabbages, corn, grain, dandelions, and many more things that we can not get along without, grow above ground.

5 So you see that we sometimes eat the

root of the plant, and sometimes the fruit

or leaves or seeds, and throw the rest away.

6. But the trees and the vines and the stalks, on which the apples and melons and cabbages

grow, have roots in the ground; and beets and potatoes and turnips all have leaves above the ground. Then, if there were no roots or leaves, none of