232 THE EARTH MADE READY FOR MAN 



laws is exemplified by the continuous life of the ant upon 

 the world for long, long ages of time, while other animals 

 have died off or changed. 



The hymn on the leaflet expresses a profound religious 

 sentiment. Have the pupils learn at least the verse 

 from it given with this lesson, or better, the whole. 



OPENING TALK 



Suppose that you should be digging sand upon the 

 seashore and that you stayed so long do\^Ti by the water 

 that rain began to fall and a high wave surprised you, 

 how quickly you would jump up and run to a place of 

 safety, leaving your footprints on the wet beach, and 

 your pail and shovel just where they were. If the waves 

 of the incoming tide should be full of sand, your aluniinum 

 pail and shovel would be hidden from sight before the 

 tide went out, and you would never get them again. 



Long, long ages afterward, some one might find your 

 pail and shovel and your footprints in some sandstone 

 that was being quarried for a building. Then he would 

 know that a child had been playing ages before on the 

 beach where the sandstone had been made. 



Now you shall hear how animal footprints and other 

 marks were left in the sand and made into stone ages 

 ago, long before there were any people in the world. 



