The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . make the body firm. Yon could notstand up if you had no bones; you would have to crawl like theworm. See one bracing himself to pull or push. The bonesare all pressed tightly against each other by the strong muscles. The bones of the body have very different shapes and us look at some of them. The bones of the head, represented here,make a roundish box. This is to hold the the mind, the governor of all the machi-nery of t
The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . make the body firm. Yon could notstand up if you had no bones; you would have to crawl like theworm. See one bracing himself to pull or push. The bonesare all pressed tightly against each other by the strong muscles. The bones of the body have very different shapes and us look at some of them. The bones of the head, represented here,make a roundish box. This is to hold the the mind, the governor of all the machi-nery of the body, resides. Great care is there-fore taken to guard well this upper room of thebody. Its bony walls are made very strong. Look at this barrel - shaped set ofbones that make the chest. The ribsgo round it as hoops do round a are joined to the back-bone be-hind and to the breast-bone in are joined to the back-bone insuch a way that they move up anddown as you breathe. You can feelthem move upward if you put yourhand on your chest as you take a fullbreath. Inside of this barrel-shapedset of bones are the heart and
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