288 LIVING THINGS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT 



STORY TEST 



JOHN TELLS ABOUT His COLLECTING TRIP 

 Read care/idly and critically. List all the errors and suggest corrections. 



Our teacher wanted some living things for our school aquarium, 

 so I went after some. I chose a stream I knew near home. It 

 was sluggish and filled with sewage, but I thought this would be a 

 good place to find living things, particularly fish. But here I was 

 disappointed. There was plenty of dead stuff for food, but no fish 

 except a few polliwogs. I did find some mosquitoes and their 

 larvae, little wrigglers, that went zigzagging through the water 

 as if they were drunk. I also found lots of snails and a few crabs. 

 Most of the water plants I hoped to find were not there, but I did 

 find plenty of water cress which I brought home to eat. I think 

 it grows plentifully there because there was lots of filth for it to 

 grow on. It will be safe to eat after it is washed. 



PROBLEM VI. LIFE IN THE FOREST AND ON 

 THE MOUNTAINS 



Forests a Refuge for Wild Life. Some boys and girls 

 fortunate enough to live in the country know what it 

 means to take a hike in a real forest. Others may have 

 gone to the mountains on a holiday and remember the 

 forest-covered mountain sides, with their deep valleys 

 and canyons through which a clear stream came leaping 

 down. Here the fisherman might find sport in the pools 

 and any nature lover could see wild life at its best squir- 

 rels in the trees, a mink swimming in the brook, trout 

 jumping for flies, and birds enjoying themselves on the 

 pebbly bank. The forests and mountains are the last 

 stand of the original life that inhabited this country before 

 civilized man changed it. The government has wisely 

 enough thrown large areas of our mountains and forests 

 into great national parks and forests, which will always 

 give the citizens of our nation a place to play as well 

 as make a refuge for the few of our original wild animals. 



