8. 'It may never come at all,' said Dora. 'Perhaps it will go to some other house.'
'That is quite likely,' said mother, who was now cleaning the hearth.
9. They went on putting the paper into the sack for a long time, and then Harry asked:
'How was paper made before there was old paper to make it of?'
10. 'Oh, it is not made of paper only. It is made of old rags, old ropes'——
Harry and Dora began to laugh.
'And straw, and wood, and a kind of grass'——
'Now, are you joking, mother?'
11. 'No, indeed! They cut the wood and straw into tiny bits, and they cut and tear the rags and boil them.'
'And what do they do with the grass?'