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list of all the wild animals you remember ever having seen.
Where did you see them? How were they prevented from harming
people? Where was the natural home of these animals? How did they
get their food? How do they now get their food?
[Illustration: RACCOON.]
Some of these animals so closely resemble the domestic animals that
they are said to belong to the same family. Read the names of the
animals belonging to the same family and tell in what way they
resemble each other. Tell which are domestic and which are wild.
THE CAT FAMILY
Cat Lion Tiger Leopard
[Illustration: TIGER.]

THE DOG FAMILY
Dog Fox Wolf
THE HORSE FAMILY
Horse Zebra
THE COW FAMILY
Cow Buffalo
Describe some of these wild animals:
Elephant Fox Squirrel Wolf Bear Deer
There are also many fish, birds and insects.
Paste in your notebook any pictures of animals.
3
Take a trip to the Zoological Gardens and see these animals.
[Illustration: LEOPARD.]
4
Which domestic or wild animals are useful to us in obtaining food,
clothing and shelter?
5
PLANTS
We cannot live without food, clothing and shelter. Let us see how
plants help us to obtain these three great necessities.
Write a list of all the plants that you can name.

Draw a line under each that is useful for food.
Draw two lines under each that is useful for clothing.
Draw three lines under each that is useful in making or furnishing our
homes or shelter.
[Illustration: ELK.]
Of what use are the plants that are not underlined? Are they beautiful?
How dull the world would be without flowers!
We have:
1. Food plants.
2. Clothing plants.
3. Shelter plants.
4. Ornamental plants.
CHAPTER VIII
TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION
1
Think of the foods that you had on your dinner table yesterday. Where
did each come from? How did it get here? Was there anything which
came from our own neighborhood, and which did not have to take a
long journey either to the factory where it was manufactured or to the
store where it was sold?
Examine the clothing you are wearing. Of what material is each article
made? Where did the materials come from? Where were they
manufactured? Which had to come a long journey before it reached
your home?

Look around the school-room and name the materials which had to
travel a long distance before we could have them for our use.
Imagine trying to get our food, our clothing and our shelter materials
right near our school. How much could we be sure of having?
2
Perhaps you have seen products being brought into the city. You may
have seen the milk trains unloading their many shining cans. Surely
you have seen the freight cars with their signs painted on the outside
telling that they are refrigerator cars, or coal cars, or other kinds of cars.
What do they carry?
Most of the things we need are brought here on trains. Where is there in
our neighborhood a freight railroad station? Is it near our school?
Some products are taken from the country to the town in wagons. You
have seen the big hay wagons which go a long way from some farm to
take food for the city horses.
[Illustration: CHINESE TRANSPORTATION.]
How else are products carried? Coffee, rubber, pepper, chocolate and
much silk are brought here from distant lands in ships. If you go to the
harbor of a large city you can see hundreds of busy men unloading the
big steamers.
3
Ships and railroads carry not only foods but people too. There are many
ways of carrying people and products. These are some of the ways:
1. On the backs of animals, as horses, camels, elephants.
2. In wheelbarrows.
3. In wagons.

4. In automobiles.
5. In trolley cars.
6. In railroad trains.
7. On boats, or ships.
8. In sleighs.
9. On bicycles.
10. In airships.
[Illustration: TRANSPORTATION IN ARABIA.]
In which of these ways have you traveled? Can you tell what power is
used in each case?
In order to travel safely and quickly we need more than something in
which to carry the people and products. We must have good wagon
roads, well built railroads, tunnels through the mountains, and bridges
over the rivers. Lighthouses are necessary to warn the vessels of the
rocks at night or in the storms.
4
When people need things from a distance they cannot always go all the
way to the place and bring back the products or articles. It is quicker
and easier to send messages asking for what is needed. How would
your mother send an order to the butcher for meat if she did not wish to
go for it? How could a farmer send a message to the city ordering new
milk cans