4 The EartJis Surface. 



1. If you should take a long walk from the 

 city, town, or village in which you live, you 

 might see people, houses, streets, roads, fields, 

 trees, streams, ponds, mills, factories, horses, 

 cows, sheep, and other animals ; perhaps you 

 would see a part of the ocean, on which great 

 ships and steamers sail. 



2. The ocean and fields are parts of the 

 earth's surface. People, animals, trees, houses, 

 ships, etc,, are on the surface. When you see 

 flies on an orange, you may say they are on its 

 surface or outside part, just as people and ani- 

 mals are on the surface of the earth, which is 

 round like an orange. 



3. When you look upwards and around you, 

 you may see the sky, the sun, and, perhaps, 

 clouds ; at night, you may see the moon and 

 stars, and other bodies called planets, which 

 look like stars. 



4. All this time you are breathing what ? 

 Air. Without air you could not live, nor 

 could any animal, bird, or fish, or tree live. 

 Sometimes the air is still, sometimes it moves 

 gently and you are able to fly your kite ; then, 

 again, it rushes powerfully and fearfully, blowing 

 down trees, fences, and houses, and sinking ships. 



SPELL AND DEFINE City, town, ship, village, 

 trees, bird, stream, fish, surface, kite, mill, factory. 



