Tut. Yes, certainly. A land entirely covered with trees would be gloomy, unwholesome, and scarcely inhabitable; whereas, the meadow, the down, and the cornfield, afford the most agreeable prospects to the eye, and furnish every necessary, and many of the luxuries of life. Give us corn and grass, and what shall we want for food?
Har. Let me see—what should we have? There’s bread and flour for puddings.
Geo. Ay, and milk, for you know cows live on grass and hay—so there’s cheese and butter and all things that are made of milk.
Tut. And are there not all kinds of meat too, and poultry? And then for drink, there are beer and ale, which are made from barley. For all these we are chiefly indebted to the grasses.
Geo. Then I am sure we are very much obliged to the grasses.
Tut. Well—let us now walk homeward. Some time hence you shall make a collection of all the kinds of grasses, and learn to know them from each other.
A TEA LECTURE.
Tutor—Pupil.
Tutor. Come—the tea is ready. Lay by your book, and let us talk a little. You have assisted in tea-making a great many times, and yet I dare say you never considered what kind of an operation it was.
Pupil. An operation of cookery—is it not?