THE STORY THAT A SCRATCHED 

 ROCK TELLS 



How many of you have read about the Eskimo 

 children and that singular land of ice and snow in 

 which they live? It is called Greenland, though it 

 is far from being a green land now. Yet it is quite 

 true that Greenland had once as warm a climate 

 as the island of Cuba has now. 



It seems very hard to believe, yet the pages of 

 nature's book tell us that it was so. The rocks of 

 Greenland, where the snow has left them uncovered, 

 tell us strange stories of what once grew upon that 

 land now buried under snow and ice. 



Did you ever learn about the coral polyps and the 

 work they do, making great coral reefs in the warm 

 southern seas? Once they built in the warm seas 

 that were then about Greenland. On the land great 

 palms lifted their feathery tops high in the air. 

 Ferns of all kinds made the ground green with their 

 graceful fronds, while Sequoia trees, like the giant 

 trees of California, towered above such other trop- 

 ical trees as the fig, the ilex and the magnolia. 



For ages and ages Greenland was like a luxiu-iant, 

 tropical island. But there came a time when all 

 that was changed. It was after the ''coming of the 

 seasons." 



At first the difference between summer and winter 



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