"But we don't burn stones, or eat grease and powdered seeds, or wear skins and caterpillars' webs, or play with tigers," said Harry.
"No?" said the captain. "Pray, what is coal but a kind of stone; and is not butter, grease; and wheat, seeds; and leather, skins; and silk, the web of a kind of caterpillar; and may we not as well call a cat an animal of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind?
"So, if you will remember what I have been describing, you will find that all the other wonderful things that I have told you of, are well known among ourselves.
"I have told you the story to show that a foreigner might easily represent every thing among us as equally strange and wonderful, as we could with respect to his country."
Directions for Reading.—Point out breathing-places in the last paragraph.
Name the emphatic words in the last paragraph.
Pronounce carefully the following words: vegetable, foreigner, beasts, products, across, again, also, apron.
Language Lesson.—Let pupils express the meaning of what is given below in dark type, using a single word for each example.