'No; they have no bark, no hard wood, and they are so small.'
Leaves of Mint, Parsley, Thyme, and Sage.
9. Dora picked a mint-leaf, a parsley-leaf, a thyme-leaf, and a sage-leaf, and laid them side by side. She wanted to see if they were like each other. But when she looked at them she found that they were not alike.
COFFEE.
| cof´-fee | win´-dow | rat´-tled | blos´-som |
| beans | bus´-y | coun´-try | cov´-ered |
| kneel´-ing | stock´-ings | cher´-ry | cloths |
| chair | ket´-tle | to-geth´-er | ber´-ries |
1. 'What is coffee, mother dear? Does it grow?'
2. It was Dora who asked this. She and Harry were putting away some things that had come from the shop, and she was now filling a tin with coffee-beans.
3. She was kneeling on a chair by the table in the window. Her mother was busy mending stockings, and the cat and the dog were both asleep. The kettle was singing, and all was cosy.