Carry said, “Yes, I remember it, and father cut down all the cedar bushes for me, and then he dug up the ugly roots, and he took out a spade one morning and dug up the ground and made it soft. And then mother gave me some flowers out of her garden, and she showed me how to plant them in my garden; and she gave me some seeds, and she showed me how to make little holes in the ground to hold the seeds. I put the seeds in the little holes and covered them up with the soft earth, and mother says they will grow into beautiful flowers by and by.” “Do you understand now, Carry,” said Mary, “why our forefathers cut down the forest trees? “The land was covered all over with trees, just as your little garden was covered over with cedar bushes; and you know you could not have a garden of flowers, until the cedar bushes were cut away.” Carry said, “Yes, I understand now. The people who came here wanted to plant wheat, and rye, and corn, and they could not plant seeds till the great trees were cut down.” Charles Linn said he would like to have another look at the wild deer picture; and Mary allowed him and all the scholars to examine it. Eddy Forester said, “The deer’s horns were like some his father had at home, to hang up his Sunday hat on; and his father called them antlers.” “Did your father ever tell you where they came from, Eddy?” asked Mary. “Yes,” said Eddy. “He told us one night—Lily and me—that they were the horns of a deer, which our great-grandfather shot a long time ago, on the spot where our house now stands.” “Oh, yes,” Lily said, “I remember, it was before we went to bed. I was sitting on father’s lap, and Eddy was sitting on my little stool, and mother was making me a new frock, when father told us about the Indians.” “Yes,” Eddy said, “he told us that when our great-grandfather came to this country from England, there was only a great forest of trees here, and no houses to be seen. He lived in a log-hut, which he, and the men who came with him, built for themselves: and they had not any thing to eat but the deer and wild turkeys which they shot. Father told us all that, and he said the antlers had been kept ever since our great-grandfather shot the wild deer in the forest.” * * * * * Mary said, “Now I will put away the large picture book, and you may all take your seats, while I prepare the black board.” Mary told all her scholars to stand up, and they answered in concert the questions she asked. She drew a mark on the black board thus, —— and told them to say what she had drawn; and they answered in concert, “a straight line.” Then she drew other figures, thus: [Illustration: Parallel lines. An angle. A triangle. A quadrangle. A circle. A semicircle. A hemisphere. An inclined plane.]