BIRD STORIES 



which is called clay; for the walls of their homes were a 

 sort of brick something like that the people made in 

 Egypt years and years ago. And do you remember how 

 the story goes that the folk in Pharaoh's day gathered 



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At Work in the Plaster Pit. 



straws to mix with the clay, so that their bricks would be 

 stronger? Well, Eve and Petro did n't know that story, 

 but they gathered fibres of slender roots and dead grass 

 stems with their clay, which doubtless did their brick 

 plaster no harm. 



Men brick-makers nowadays bake their bricks in 



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