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FIRST BOOK. 
6. " Perhaps you cannot easily tell which is my 
head. But you will find that one end of my 
body is more pointed than the other. I call that 
end the head, because my mouth is there. It is 
a very small mouth, just on the under side of the 
second ring. But I have no teeth, and no eyes. 
7. I am fond of dragging straws and leaves 
into the ground. Some of these I eat, and some 
stay in the ground to rot and help to form good 
soil. I often swallow the rich earth, too, and 
then go up and cast it on the ground. Have you 
not seen the curly little heaps, or ' casts which 
I and other worms have left? 
8. " If you go out in the evening, when the 
ground is damp, you may find many of us 
stretched on the ground. You must step softly 
though, or we shall shrink away. We keep our 
tails fixed in our holes, that we may get in quickly 
if anything comes near us." 
LITTLE WORKERS. 
1. Though the earthworm is such a small crea- 
ture, it does useful work in helping to make the 
soil fit for bearing crops. 
2. If you wish to know how a worm can do 
that you must think of what it feeds upon. It 
