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other use for the lids? (Protect and moisten.) How are the lids 

 kept moist, and from rubbing on the eyes? 



5. Nose. — Where placed ? Nostrils directed ? Use of smelling ? 



6. Taste. — Where located? Why have we taste? 



7. What ways of moving has a boy? In what position does he 

 "creep"? How does he "swim"? Position in "walking"? 

 How is the foot placed down in walking? How does running 

 differ? How does he " climb "? 



8. What limbs has a boy? How many legs? How many arms? 

 How many toes? How many fingers? How many nails? Has 

 he a thumb ? What can he do with the thumb that he cannot do 

 with any finger? (Place it opposite to fingers.) How are his 

 legs and arms arranged? (In pairs.) (Punctuation is quoted.) 



And so on for two pages more about the boy. Then Ave 

 have : — 



The Cow (No. 57). 8. Notice that she has four legs and a 

 cleft hoof with two toes. 



On reading this over to a bright school, boy, he burst out 

 at this point : "I should think the man that set type would 

 have known better than to have put that in." In another 

 book by the same author, entitled " Advance Science 

 Teaching," we are told that the cow has four toes, which is 

 the correct number, — a great "advance." After about 

 two pages on the cow we next study : — 



The Hen (No. 37). Material needed: get the butcher to save 

 a lot of heads and legs (which they usually chop off and throw 

 away), wash them well, dry, and give one of each to every two or 

 three pupils. Get some pupil to bring a live hen in a box, to have 

 it for examination. A hen should have also been set about two 

 weeks before this study begins. 



3. Search for the concealed ear. 



4. Find the three eyelids. Which way do they move ? Gently 

 touch the eye of a live hen with a feather, and see her wink. 

 Notice the round pupil. Can a hen look forward without turning 

 her head ? 



5. Notice the nostrils, where they are, and which way directed. 



7. A hen walks. 



8. The hen has four toes, with blunt claws. From the toes 

 up to the first joint is called the tarsus. Is it feathered, or not? 



