. 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. ll-pond for his fathers mill.* That is Wolf Creek. So the Indians called it, because therewere many wolves there before the white men came. Can youname another creek ? Muddy Creek. Slippery Rock last one is long and deep. But how does Wolf Creek makethe mill-pond ? Some men built a dam right across the creek,so the water was stopped, and it filled up behind the dam untilthe water became very wide a
. 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. ll-pond for his fathers mill.* That is Wolf Creek. So the Indians called it, because therewere many wolves there before the white men came. Can youname another creek ? Muddy Creek. Slippery Rock last one is long and deep. But how does Wolf Creek makethe mill-pond ? Some men built a dam right across the creek,so the water was stopped, and it filled up behind the dam untilthe water became very wide and deep, and then ran over thedam. That is told very well. Let us draw the pond. (Drav/s.) Some day we shall learn of something that is much like apond, only larger ; but nobody ever built a dam to make it. ** Thats a lake (says Johnny). You may draw the pasture, the spring, and the brook. Makethe little bunches of grass like this (Fig. 68). (Give this as busywork.) From the crude pictures drawn by the children there is but astep to the conventional map (Fig. 69), by which the surveyorconveys the idea of pasture land. Have the children draw suchsquares and oblongs. Land Forms. 159. Fig. 70. acsson KK, Forms of Land. On her way to school Jennie came through the pasture. Asshe opened the large gate I saw her drive back the cows thattried to run out into the road. Mr. Smith put the cows in thereto eat the grass, Freddy says. It is not very good now, and Iguess they were going up to the barn because the weather iscold. You little Yankee, to * guess. What did they want atthe barn ? I think they wanted some hay. Miss Clay. Mary i6o Home Geography, says that in the meadow, across the road from the pasture (), the cattle were not allowed to eat the grass as fast as it grew. When it was very tall, father mowed the grass and made did he use for mowing the grass, Kate ? A mowing-machine, perhaps ; father used one in his meadow. ** So flatthat the horses could draw the machi
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