Yes! it would be wasted, if thus burned. It would be worse than wasted, if, while burning, it should also hurt the person who held it. If you should buy cigars or tobacco with your dollar, and smoke them, you could soon burn up the dollar and hurt yourselves besides. Can you count a million? Can you count a hundred millions? Try some day to do this counting. Then, when you begin to have some idea how much six hundred millions is, remember that six hundred million dollars are spent in this country every year for tobacco--burned up--wasted--worse than wasted. Do you think the farmer who planted tobacco instead of corn, did any good to the world by the change? REVIEW QUESTIONS. 1. How may one waste money? 2. Name some good ways for spending money. 3. How does the liquor-drinker spend his money? 4. What could we do, if no money was spent for liquor? 5. Tell two ways in which you could burn up a dollar bill. 6. Which would be the safer way? 7. How much money is spent for tobacco, yearly, in this country? * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: To denote the breve over the y the following notation was used [)y]. Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Page 104, Illustration, "Pe spiratory" changed to "Perspiratory" (Perspiratory tube) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes, by Jane Andrews