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inland, where they are killed and skinned. The 

 natives preserve most of the flesh for food, while 

 the skins are shipped to London. There they are 

 tanned, plucked, and dyed, after which they are 

 sent to different cities and made into beautiful 

 capes, caps, and other garments. 



Seals are also killed from boats and ships at sea, 

 sometimes many miles from the islands; but this 

 is unlawful and cruel, for most of those that are 

 thus caught are mother seals that are gathering 

 food to provide for their young. If the mothers 

 are killed, the pups, as they are called, will starve 

 to death on the islands, and so the herds of seals 

 that furnish so much beautiful fur will become 

 smaller and smaller as the years go by. 



The United States and Great Britain are trying 

 to stop this wasteful catching of seals, but they 

 find it difficult to prevent it altogether. Let us 

 hope that they may be more successful in the 

 future, and that the seals on the islands may be 

 allowed to increase. 



BLACKBOARD WORDS. 



salutations (sal-u-ta'shttnz), knapsack (nap'sak), im- 

 mediate (im-me'di-ate), weaving (wev'ing), enormous 

 (e-n6r'mtis), bachelor (bach'e-16r), enrages (en-raj'ez), 

 wasteful (wasfful). 



