CONVERSATION III. 



Uncle Philip tells the Boys and Girls about 

 Maple-treeSj and how to tnake Maple' 

 sugar. 



" Good day, Uncle Philip ; we have come 

 to put you in mind of your promise, to tell us 

 about the maples ; the beautiful maples that 

 give us such nice sugar and sirup to eat 

 with our buckwheat cakes." 



" And Uncle Philip is very glad to see you, 

 my children ; he is always pleased to talk 

 with good little boys and girls, and to tell 

 them any thing that he knows. You spoke 

 of the maple just now, my dears, as though 

 there was but one kind; you must know 

 that there are no less than fourteen : but only 

 seven of them are found in this country ; the 

 others are peculiar to Europe, and therefore 

 I shall not say much about them." 



" We know three of the kinds, Uncle Philip ; 



