. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. seed rice to plant. Therice that people eat is not fit to sow. One day a ship came to Charles-ton, whereThomas Smith lived. It had been driven thereby storms. The ship came from the large island 23 where Smith had seenrice grow. The cap-tain of this ship was anold friend of Smith. The two old friendsmet once more. ThomasSmith told the captainthat he wanted some ricefor seed. The captain calledthe cook of his ship, and askedhim if he had any. The cook hadone little bag of seed rice. The cap-tain gave this to his friend. There was some wet groun
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. seed rice to plant. Therice that people eat is not fit to sow. One day a ship came to Charles-ton, whereThomas Smith lived. It had been driven thereby storms. The ship came from the large island 23 where Smith had seenrice grow. The cap-tain of this ship was anold friend of Smith. The two old friendsmet once more. ThomasSmith told the captainthat he wanted some ricefor seed. The captain calledthe cook of his ship, and askedhim if he had any. The cook hadone little bag of seed rice. The cap-tain gave this to his friend. There was some wet ground atthe back of Smiths garden. In thiswet ground he sowed some of therice. It grew finely. He gathered a good deal of rice in hisgarden that year. He gave part of thisto his friends. They all sowed it. Thenext year there was a great deal of rice. After a while the wet land in SouthCar-o-li-na was turned to rice year many thousands of barrelsof rice were sent away to be sold. All this came from one little bag ofrice and one wise Rice Plant. 24 THE STORY OF A WISE WOMAN. You have read how Thomas Smith first raisedrice in Car-o-H-na. After his death there livedin South Car-o-H-na a wise young woman. Sheshowed the people how to raise another name was Eliza Lucas. The father of Miss Lucas did not live in Car-o-li-na. He was gov-ern-or of one of the islands ofthe West Indies. Miss Lucas was fond of tryingnew things. She often Q^ot seeds from her she planted in South Carolina. Her father sent her some seeds of the in-di-goplant. She sowed some of -these in March. Butthere came a frost. The in-di-go plant cannotstand frost. Her plants all died. But Miss Lucas did not give up. She sowedsome more seeds in April. These grew verywell until a cut-worm found them. The wormwished to try new things, too. So he ate off thein-di-go plants. But Miss Lucas was one of the people who try,try again. She had lost her indigo plants more she sowed som
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