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or road that the
school stands upon. If you live in a town, draw the streets next to the
school. Then draw the next streets, and keep on until you have drawn
the street on which your home stands. Place a little cross to show your
home. With your pencil start from your house and make a dotted line to
show how you come to school.
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On your plan of the neighborhood place a circle to show the grocery
store or bakery that you pass on your way to school. Make a large dot
to show the nearest store to school, and with a dotted line explain how
you would go there from school if your teacher sent you to buy ink.
Make a circle with a cross in it to show where there is a church, a bank,
a factory, or any other important building near your school. If there is a
railroad near, show it upon your plan.

[Illustration: A COUNTRY HOME.]
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Many streets and lanes have names of trees. Some have been named
after great and good men. There are some streets with only numbers for
names. Do you know of any streets having names of these different
kinds? Can you think of any street or road that received its name for
some other reason?
Get as many pictures as you can of the streets of your town or any other
town and paste them in your note-book. Get some pictures of country
roads and paste them also in your note-book.
[Illustration: A CITY STREET. (Copyright, 1911, William H. Rau,
Philadelphia.)]
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In some towns the streets are nearly straight and cross each other like
the wires of a window-screen. In other towns the streets run off from
the centre of the town like the spokes of a wheel. Some streets and
roads are very crooked.
How are the streets in our town arranged? Name some of our best
business streets. Which streets have the finest homes in which people
live? Name some streets or roads with trolley lines upon them. Are our
streets paved?
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Perhaps you live in the country where there are very few streets or none
at all. How different is your walk to school each day from that of the
city boy or girl! In town, children walk on paved streets and pass many
buildings. What kind of roads do the country children walk upon? What
buildings do they pass? A country school.
[Illustration: A MODERN COUNTRY SCHOOL.]

Do you take a pleasant road between broad fields? Do you walk
through the cool shady woods? Perhaps you run over a bridge with the
clear brook sparkling and babbling beneath. What else do you see or
hear in the country which city folks do not know in their built up
towns?
CHAPTER III
THE BUILDINGS
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What kinds of buildings do you pass on your way to school? Write a
list of all the kinds that you have ever seen.
Look at the pictures of buildings in this book and see if you know for
what each is used. How can you tell?
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Of all the many kinds of buildings in town or country, the houses are
the most important. It is more necessary to have good homes to live in
than to have the other buildings large or beautiful. What makes a good
residence? There must be enough room for the whole family. It needs
plenty of light, air, sunshine and water. It must have a good roof to
keep it dry in stormy weather. It should be well heated in the cold
winter. Tell of other things that are needed in our homes to keep the
family healthy and happy. How can you help to make your home
pleasant?
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Good schools, too, are very necessary. The school-house must be built
to keep the boys and girls comfortable and healthy while at work.
Name some of the things needed for a good school building.
[Illustration: A STREET SCENE IN NEW YORK.]

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The libraries and museums also teach people. A library is like a home
where many friendly teachers live. These friends will talk to you and
tell you many useful and wonderful things. Have you ever visited them
at the library? Have you ever taken any of them home with you? Is
there a library near our school?
The museums are full of many interesting objects. You may see
beautiful pictures and statuary. Some have collections of pretty stones
and of stuffed animals. Curious clothing, jewelry, toys and musical
instruments used by people in distant lands are shown too. In a museum
in Portland you may see the dear little clothing worn by the poet
Longfellow when he was a tiny baby. Many books that Washington
read are kept in