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“We are the children that drink the milk, that comes 
from the cows, that eat the grass, that grows from the 
seeds in the meadow.” 
“If there were no seeds, there would be no grass to 
feed the cows that give us our milk for breakfast.” 
And so it is everywhere. Plants give us a kind of 
food that we must have, and that only they can give. 
They could get on well enough without animals.  In- 
deed, for a long time they did so, many hundreds of 
years ago. But animals cannot live without plants. 
I think you will now remember why seeds are of 
such great importance. 
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HOW THE APPLE SHIELDS ITS YOUNG 
OME time ago you noticed that apple seeds were 
packed away within the apple as neatly as though 
they were precious jewels in their case. 
When we see something done up very carefully, sur- 
rounded with cotton wool, laid in a beau- 
tiful box, and wrapped about with soft 
paper, we feel sure that the object of all 
this care is of value. Even the outside of 
such a package tells us that something 
precious lies within. 
But what precious jewels could be laid 
away more carefully than these apple 
seeds? And what jewel case could boast 
a more beautiful outside than this red-cheeked apple 
(Fig. 11)? 
