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find out which way the wind was till I began to watch 

 the smoke coming out of the chimneys. There were 

 clouds just above the horizon in every direction, but 

 I could not see them move at all. About a quarter 

 of a mile south of me there was a very tall chimney, 

 and the dark gray smoke went up exactly straight 

 about sixty or seventy feet, I should say, and then it 

 went almost horizontally towards the east. Of course 

 I concluded that the wind was west. Soon I began 

 to look for other chimneys, and I found that the smoke 

 was going in a slanting way to the west from all 

 short ones, while it went in the opposite way from 

 the highest ones. My experience this morning re- 

 minded me that one day last week I saw clouds high 

 up near the zenith moving in three different direc- 

 tions. One cloud went south, another northeast, and 

 another west. This last went very fast and I found 

 that it was not up nearly as high as the others.' 



Emma. 



The Apple Tree. 



"This tree belongs to a large class of very im- 

 portant and useful plants called the Rose Family. 

 The family contains nearly a hundred genera and a 

 thousand species of plants. These plants furnish by 

 far the greater part of our most delicious fruits, some 

 of which are the peach, quince, apricot, pear, plum, 



