INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY.
OUR EARTH.

We live upon a great round ball or sphere. It is called the EARTH.

THE CHILD'S WORLD.

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast,
World, you are beautifully dressed.

The wonderful air is over me,

And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree;

There are many wonderful and beautiful things about this earth of ours of It walks on water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills. which we shall learn.

You, friendly Earth, how far do you go,

With the wheat-fields that nod, and the rivers made up of land and water.

that flow,

The entire outside of the earth is

Think of the nearest stream, pool, or body of water which you know. Tell the class about it.

Tell which is land and which water in the picture of the earth on the preceding page.

In some places there is much

more land to be
seen than
than water.
In other places
there is much

more water to be seen than land.

In which of the pictures on this page is more land to be seen than water? Tell what objects you know in this picture. What do these objects tell us about the life of the people who live

there?

In which picture is more water to be seen than land? What do we learn about the life of the people from this picture?

There is much more water than land on the earth.

Find them in the world-pic. after a rain, in the mud-puddles.