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formation of brook-basins, valleys, hills, slopes, plains, 

 points, deltas, bars, islands, rapids, straits, bays, shallows. 



Important points to impress. 



The stream, like the water in the air, is always at work. 



The stream picks up, carries along, and drops mud, sand, 

 stones. 



The swifter the stream, the more work it does. 



The less room the stream has, the swifter it is. 



The finer and lighter the soil, the more easily it is picked 

 up and carried along. 



The stream cuts its own path, and makes the path change 

 and curve or wind. 



It makes its own bars and islands and points. 



It may make its own valley if it has time enough. 



Streams have dug many valleys, little and great, and left 

 the hills standing between them. 



Water has made the country look as it does. 



Water has given the country most of its beauty. 



Literature. The following bring out something of the 

 work of streams, and may help to make streams mean 

 more to the children than " bodies of water flowing through 

 the land." 



" The Brooklet and the Wave." Longfellow. 



" To my Brooklet." Longfellow. 



" Mad River." Longfellow. 



" The Boy and the Brook." Longfellow. 



" Songo River." Longfellow. 



"Friend Brook." Lucy Larcom. 



"The Rivulet." Lucy Larcom. 



"The Brook that ran into the Sea." Lucy Larcom. 



" Rock and Rill." Lucy Larcom. 



The Brook." Tennyson. 



