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side shell is taken off, a brown seed can be seen, and 

 if the outside of this is taken off, the whole tree can be 

 seen. There are two leaves, and between them the 

 trunk with the root on the end. All parts of the little 

 young tree are a light yellowish green color." 



David. 



Dewdrops. 



" This morning there was a very heavy dew, and I 

 could see thousands of rounded dewdrops on the 

 grass. It was a beautiful sight, for the dew sparkled 

 in the light and I could see nearly all the colors of 

 the rainbow. The dew comes from the air. There 

 is always water in the air, and the whole atmosphere 

 always contains water enough to cover the earth sev- 

 eral inches deep. When the air is made cold enough 

 the water in it is formed into perfect little globes or 

 drops which are perfectly round like the little globes of 

 mercury we saw some time ago in the experiments in 

 chemistry. When the drops of water are formed in 

 a cloud and fall to the ground we say it rains ; when 

 the drops are so small we cannot see them they form 

 the dew on the grass and trees. In warm weather 

 when we have a pitcher of water with ice in it the 

 dew collects on the pitcher, but we do not see the 

 little globes fall." Helen. 



