"So they might. But then, Nora, wooden houses would not last so long as stone ones."
"Well people could build new ones."
"But houses might be wanted where there was not wood enough to build them."
"I never saw such a place," said Nora. "I never saw a place where there was not wood enough. And if there is such a place anywhere, people could not live in it, because they would have nothing to make fires with."
Daisy considered.
"But Nora, I think it cannot be so. I guess everything is made for some use. Dr. Sandford told me yesterday what the use is of those queer brown leaves that grow upon rocks you know and the use of little mosses, that I never thought before were good for anything. They are to begin to prepare a place on the rocks where things can grow."
"Why, they grow themselves," said Nora.
"Yes, but I mean other things ferns and flowers and other things."
"Well, what is the use of them?" said Nora.
"Oh, Nora just think how pretty they are."