. Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. ockets grew larger and larger, day by day,as the little hands still clutched them. I shall be of use some day, said the little plant to itself, asit dreamed of its lovely blossoms through the long, sultry days ofsummer. Little seeds were growing in the pockets, and restingon beds of downy softness. How very warm the days were, and how the sun did scorchthe pockets until they became quite brown ! The little co
. Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. ockets grew larger and larger, day by day,as the little hands still clutched them. I shall be of use some day, said the little plant to itself, asit dreamed of its lovely blossoms through the long, sultry days ofsummer. Little seeds were growing in the pockets, and restingon beds of downy softness. How very warm the days were, and how the sun did scorchthe pockets until they became quite brown ! The little cotton-plant thought, and—Pop ! pop ! ! The brown pockets were burstopen, and the top of the plant seemed covered with snow. Hada storm of ready-made snowballs fallen upon the cotton-field ? (Fig. 93-) Soon some colored people came into the field and com-menced to pick off the bolls of cotton fibre which the plants hadproduced. And down from the mansion-house the owner ofthe plantation came with his little daughter Etta. As they The Cotton-field. 205 passed along the field, the little cotton-plant heard the fathersaying : The cotton is picked and carried in bags to the Fig. 93. This machine separates the seeds from the fiber of the the cotton is pressed into big bundles or bales, and these 2o6 Cotton Picking. are carried away by steamers to distant towns, and made intocalico, gingham, sheeting, or musHn. Tlie Hindoos make somemusHn so fine that when it is laid upon the grass and coveredwith dew it looks like a spiders web. They call them ivcbs ofwoven wind. The little plant wondered what would become of its fluffyglobes of pure white cotton, and hoped that they might be made
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