A Slate Quarry
9. 'It is as cold as a stone,' said Dora, putting it against her face. 'Do you remember, Harry, how cold our hands were in winter when we did sums? Yes, and it is very hard. I am sure it is a piece of rock.'
SLATE.
PART 2.
| should | laugh´-ing | set´-tled | weighted |
| laughed | pur´-pose | hap´-pened | through |
| high´-er | prop´-er-ly | deal | heaved |
| thought | please | dead | brok´-en |
1. 'I should like to see a rock all made of slate! Have you ever seen one, mother?'
'Yes, many, dear. But there are none near.' Then she laughed a little. 'But if you like to go just outside the door you will see rows and rows of slates.'
2. Out they ran, looked all over the ground, then at the garden-wall, then back at their mother, who had come to the door.
'Look at the house,' she said, 'look higher!'
3. 'Oh, we never thought of the roof,' they cried, and ran in again laughing. 'But those slates are not so nice and smooth as our slates.'