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bitter taste will pass off/' said the planter. " We 
shall place them in heaps or in boxes in a close 
room for five or six days, and that will cause 
them to become warm and moist. Sweating cleans 
them too, and gives them a rich brown colour. 
Afterwards they will be dried until the skins are 
hard and crisp, and the beans are ready to break 
easily into ' nibs V 
9. As the boys walked home, their teacher 
said : 
" There is much more cocoa grown in Trinidad 
than in our island. I should like you to find on 
a map these names — St. Mary, Portland, St. 
Thomas, and St. Catherine ; those are the parishes 
fn which most of the cocoa is grown in Jamaica." 
THE ORANGE.— I 
1. In an orange there are three parts to look 
at — the rind, the pulp, and the seeds. 
First we pull off the rind, and find that its 
bright golden colour is only on the outside; 
within it is white and spongy. If we squeeze it 
we see on the outside tiny beads of oil, which we 
have forced out of the little bags in which it was 
hidden. 
2. The oil has a strong scent, and it may be 
