. In the child's world : morning talks and stories for kindergartens, primary schools and homes . alamp in his hand, because he needs both hands to work with;so he has a little lamp fastened in the front of his cap. Isntthat a good plan? He walks along one of the paths, the lamp in his hat throwingits light a little ahead. When he gets to his place of work hetakes his sharp pick and strikes at the rock, breaking off pieceafter piece of it. In this rock are bits and streaks of iron or gold or silver; or,if it is a coal mine, the pieces are solid coal instead of rock. All day the miner works in
. In the child's world : morning talks and stories for kindergartens, primary schools and homes . alamp in his hand, because he needs both hands to work with;so he has a little lamp fastened in the front of his cap. Isntthat a good plan? He walks along one of the paths, the lamp in his hat throwingits light a little ahead. When he gets to his place of work hetakes his sharp pick and strikes at the rock, breaking off pieceafter piece of it. In this rock are bits and streaks of iron or gold or silver; or,if it is a coal mine, the pieces are solid coal instead of rock. All day the miner works in that strange, dark place, awayunder ground—no sunshine, no light but the little twinklinglights of the lamps that the other miners carry. At night hegets into the big iron basket again, and goes up, up, up, as if inan elevator, to the top of the shaft again, and steps out upon theground and into the fresh air once more. How much he must enjoy his Sundays and holidays, when hecan see tne sunshine, and the sky, and all such beautiful things,instead of being in the black darkness of the mine !. Tin-: M 212 IN THE CHILDS WORLE. TEACHERS READING. The History of a Piece of Coal (Fairyland of Science), Arabella Buckley Haworths, Frances Hodgson Burnett That Lass o Lowries, Frances Hodgson Burnett The Led Horse Claim, Mary Hallock Foote Bret Hartes Stories. Charles Egbert Craddocks Stories. Industrial Biography, Samuel Smiles The Pine-Tree Shillings, Hawthorne For the Children. The Blind Brother, Homer Greene The Golden Opportunity, Jean Ingelow The Pomegranate Seeds, N. Hawthorne The Golden Bread, Laboulaye The Golden Touch, N. Hawthorne The Tinsmith (Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks), S. E. Wiltse STORIES. Suggestions. The day after the talk upon The Miner, I gave to the chil-dren of my kindergarten a story of a little boy who visited amine with his father, in that way describing the mine through
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