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the more she knew, the more this feeling of her 
childish years increased, for there were more won¬ 
ders in God’s world than she could ever learn. She 
was very much surprised when the Blue-eyed Grass 
went on to tell her that corn, wheat, rye, and oats 
were all Grasses ; that the sugar-cane which grows 
in hot climates, and from which that sweet mouth¬ 
ful that children love is made, was also one of the 
grass family ; and still more did she wonder, when 
she spoke of a giant Grass that grows sixty feet into 
the air, and forms with its waving plumes of leaves, 
an impenetrable and beautiful shade in those lands 
where the heat of the sun is so oppressive. And 
not only for its beauty and its shade is the Bamboo 
valued. Houses, furniture, bridges, masts of 
ships, even paper is made of its tubular stems ; 
and its outer coat is composed of a substance which 
can neither be destroyed by fire, or acids, but may 
