. 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. and admiring them. Growing, tooso very fast that now the plant was almost as high as your it thought and thought; and with a plant, to tJiiiik is to act,and each thought means a blossom. Such a beautiful straw-colored blossom each one was ! Fivedainty yellow petals, each with a purple spot at its base (Fig. 92).The whole flower looked very much like a hollyhock. Indeed,there was nothing strange abo
. 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. and admiring them. Growing, tooso very fast that now the plant was almost as high as your it thought and thought; and with a plant, to tJiiiik is to act,and each thought means a blossom. Such a beautiful straw-colored blossom each one was ! Fivedainty yellow petals, each with a purple spot at its base (Fig. 92).The whole flower looked very much like a hollyhock. Indeed,there was nothing strange about that, for the little plant was firstcousin to the proud hollyhocks up by the mansion, and hoped to Thought and Action. 203 see them at the annual reunion of the Mallow family. To besure, the hollyhocks were very tall and stately, and held theirheads up very high that they might show their beautiful flowersin all their tints of rose, purple, and yellow, and sometimes purestwhite. Had they not come all the way from Syria ? But ourlittle plant knew that it is better to be useful than to be beautiful,so it kept on growing. Yet the hollyhocks need not have looked so scornfully upon. Fig. , for Pliny, an old Roman author who lived many years ago,had found a quaint Arabic name for our httle friend, and calledit Gossypimn. But then the negroes did not use that name; theycalled our little plant—COTTON. How beautiful its pale yellow blossoms were in the morningsunshine! Each pretty flower was held up by the fingers of alittle hand through the three-parted sleeve with its laces andfringes at the wrist. And deep down in each blossom there wasa little green pocket. 204 The Lordly Hollyhocks, All the brothers and sisters of our little plant had been think-ing, too, and the whole rich field looked like a vast garden offlowers. The little plant could see the yellow blossoms all overthe cotton-field. As the sun rose high at noon, many of theblossoms became pure white. Were its own blo
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