WATER. 
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be dry, as well as in the fruits whose juices show 
plainly that water is present. We also take a great 
quantity of water as drink.” 
“Do you know what use the water is to our 
bodies?” asked May. 
3. “ I can tell you some of its uses,” said Miss 
Brooks. “ It sof- 
tens anddissolves 
some of our food, 
and then it acts 
as a carrier to 
take the dissolved 
food into the 
blood, and the 
waste matters out 
of the body. It 
is, indeed, only 
really become 
part of the body, 
sary than solids, 
without any solid food, if he has plenty of water, 
than he can if no water be given to him.” 
4. “ But the gentleman warned us not to drink 
bad water,” said May. “ He said it might make 
us ill.” 
“ Yes; he said how dangerous it is to drink water 
in which the remains of animals or plants are decay- 
in the liquid state 
that food can 
Some Animal and Vegetable Structures found 
in a Drop of Impure Water 
So liquids are even more neces- 
A man can live much longer 
