182 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. 



picture to our minds the wonderful ocean home. 

 We think of all that we might see there, if our eyes 

 could only get the chance, and we try to imagine 

 what we never can hope to behold. 



But with the wonderful water-telescope we can 

 really see a great many of the creatures that live 

 near the shore, and they seem so much more 

 beautiful than we had supposed, that we are ready 

 to believe that if we could only live there, we 

 should find the ocean as rich and interesting and 

 as full of life as the land or the air. 



I hope that you may all have a chance some 

 time to go out in what is called the "glass- 

 bottomed boat," and if you do, I am sure you 

 will be surprised and pleased to observe what 

 wonderful plants and animals live beneath the 

 blue waves. 



BLACKBOARD WORDS. 



telescope (tel'e-skop), astronomer (as-tron'o-mer), con- 

 venient (kon-ven'yeiit), concerned (kon-sernd'), canopy 

 (kan'o-py), scythe (sitli), shiners (shin'ers), aquarium 

 (a-qua'ri-Qm). 



