Mother Nature's Toy-Shop

lant and what we call the flower is not the blossom at all, but a protecting leaf called a spathe wh

w is that there is a pulpit with its curved sounding-board-or perh

solemn and that to preach he must have a pulpit rich and sombre. The good God who made him gave him his pretty, striped pulpit with its stri

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nto the clean, shady woods and learn to love all the wonderful living, growing things to be found here. Come into the green woods and hear what we can tell you

cult work, too, if the soil does not give them enough food, or a dry summer chokes them with thirst. Sometimes they must struggle hard to gain

well; they work and love, and their children, the blos

can make him move around. He can turn first to one side then to the other, and he can lean for

ottom, as is shown in Fig. 7, then, slipping your knife inside, cut Jack loose

twig or grass-stem. Fig. 9 shows how this is done. For arms that will make Jack seem more like a little man, push a short piece of grass-stem thr

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hand take the grass-stem in the other and, by moving it up and down, twisting it one way, then the other, and tipping it up, you can make him rise up tall an