. 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. Fig. 93. This machine separates the seeds from the fiber of the the cotton is pressed into big bundles or bales, and these 2o6 Cotton Picking. are carried away by steamers to distant towns, and made intocalico, gingham, sheeting, or musHn. Tlie Hindoos make somemusHn so fine that when it is laid upon the grass and coveredwith dew it looks like a spiders web. They call them ivcbs ofwoven wind. The
. 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. Fig. 93. This machine separates the seeds from the fiber of the the cotton is pressed into big bundles or bales, and these 2o6 Cotton Picking. are carried away by steamers to distant towns, and made intocalico, gingham, sheeting, or musHn. Tlie Hindoos make somemusHn so fine that when it is laid upon the grass and coveredwith dew it looks like a spiders web. They call them ivcbs ofwoven wind. The little plant wondered what would become of its fluffyglobes of pure white cotton, and hoped that they might be made. Fig, 94. into such beautiful fabrics as those of which the father was speak-ing. Then it would be of some use. Papa, papa, let me pick some cotton, cried Etta as shepassed along the path. (Fig. 94.) The plant seemed to stretch out to her its hands to give upthe ten beautiful bolls of cotton that it held. So, when Ettasfather told her she might pick the cotton, the little girl gathered Voices of the Trees. 207 all that the plant had, and put the pure white bolls into the largebasket. The little plant was now at leisure to watch the men andwomen as they came day after day to gather the ripened the cotton did not ripen all at once. When you put corninto a popper, some of the kernels will pop out sooner thanothers ; and in the same way the bolls of cotton pop out underthe heat of the southern sun. The cotton continued to ripenand open for some months, but the little plant still stood therein the field. Whatever will become of my treasure of cotton that thelittle girl gathered ?
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