The sea yields much that we eat. Some parts abound in codfish, mackerel, and herring. Sardines, the little fish that come in boxes, are also found in the sea. It is the business of thousands of people who live near the ocean to catch fish, salt them, and pack them, to send to those who want them for food.
Have you ever seen the ocean, or eaten any of its fish?
Name some fishes found in fresh water.
Name some kinds of fishes found in waters near where you live. How may they be caught?
LESSON XLIV.
MORE ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING.
In the city or town we shall find many of the people busy about something else than the occupations we have learned. What do you suppose it is?
If you go about the city, you will see large buildings several stories high, with long rows of windows, and great smoking chimneys. These are mills or factories, full of machines in motion doing their work almost like human beings.
The people who work in them make almost everything that is needed for our use. Wheat is changed into flour; cotton, into thread, fine muslins, and pretty calicoes; leather, into boots and shoes; iron and steel, into plows, stoves; and cutlery; lumber, into wagons, carriages, and all kinds of furniture. Other articles which we must not forget are elegant jewelry, all sorts of ornaments for parlors, and beautiful toys which you admire so much.