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tains or in the valleys, away from the salt water, 

 and have never yet had a chance to visit the 

 coast. 



I hope they may, one of these days, and I feel 

 pretty sure that they will. I had never seen the 

 ocean when I was thirteen, but since I became a 

 man I have seen it often, and have learned to love 

 it very much. 



Suppose you try to find out what per cent of 

 the members of your class have seen the broad 

 ocean, what per cent have seen only a bay, and 

 what per cent have never seen either. That will 

 be a good practical problem in percentage. Of 

 course, the sum of the three answers should equal 

 one hundred, no matter what the size of the class 

 may be. 



The line where the land and the ocean meet is 

 a place where a great many creatures live. It is 

 a pretty broad line in some places, for the tides 

 rise and fall twice a day, and the shore at high 

 tide may lie half a mile from the low tide-line. 



And then beyond this line there is a space 

 where the water is not very deep, though the bot- 

 tom is always covered, and this region of shallow 

 water is one which abounds in living things, both 

 animal and vegetable. Then comes the deep sea, 

 where living things are less common. One reason 



