Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . istening To the organ-chant of the winds, Jack, and the tunes-that the sweet birds sing. —Lucy Larcom. coquetting (ko-ketting): acting playfully. VOLCANOES What a volcano is like it is easy enough to showyou; for they are the most simply and beautifullyshaped of all mountains, and they are alike all overthe world, whether they be large or small. Almostevery volcano in the world, I believe, is, or has beenonce, of the «hape which you see in the picture on thenext page. All those sloping sides are made of cinders andashes, braced togeth
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . istening To the organ-chant of the winds, Jack, and the tunes-that the sweet birds sing. —Lucy Larcom. coquetting (ko-ketting): acting playfully. VOLCANOES What a volcano is like it is easy enough to showyou; for they are the most simply and beautifullyshaped of all mountains, and they are alike all overthe world, whether they be large or small. Almostevery volcano in the world, I believe, is, or has beenonce, of the «hape which you see in the picture on thenext page. All those sloping sides are made of cinders andashes, braced together, I suppose, by bars of solidlava-stone inside, which prevent the whole from crum-bling down. The upper part, you see, is white withsnow, as far down as a line which is 15,000 feet abovethe sea. For this mountain is in the tropics, close to 246 A READER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE the equator, and the snow will not lie in that hot cli-mate any lower down. But now and then the snow melts off, and rushesdown the mountainside in floods of water and of mud, jIP^.
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