The Child of the Dawn

ls that are sometimes called our "Five Senses." You remember that we have already talked about one of them, the sense of touch in the skin. Now which one are you going to use first this morn

trikes and then goes bob-bob-bobbing up and down on its own waves. Now watch the little waves all around the cork. Where do they stop?

n they roll against our ears, make us hear. They make what we call sound. You have heard about sending messages through the air, without telegraph wires. Wireless messages are often sent to ships out in the middle of the ocean. This

o catch the sound waves and carry them to your brain. You know what they

e a deaf person put his hand behind his ear and press it forward so as to catch the sound waves better. These waves roll in at the little h

turn beats against a little bone called the hammer; the hammer beats against another called the anvil, and this against a third called the stirrup; and the quiver of the stirrup is passed on to a little window, opening into a litt

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you can't put your elbow into such a tiny hole! So the old saying means, never put anything in. The eardrum is very thin and c

ttle creases that gather dirt and dust. The deep crease beh

is said, and then guess at the rest and think they are listening, or else ask to have it repeated. We should

mations of the nose and throat. These spread to the ear through a little tube that runs up to the drum cavity from the back of the throat. Sometimes, when you are blowing your nose, you may feel your ear go "pop"; and that means that you have blown air

The old Norsemen have a story that their god Heimdall had such keen ears that he could hear the grass growing in the meadow and the wool growing on the backs of t

to tell from which direction a sound comes. You can learn to tell one sound from another in the midst of

rb, "Hear much and say l

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