The butterfly is an insect. We see that its body is divided into three parts, and that each part is made of a number of rings joined to one another. It has three pairs of jointed legs and two pairs of wings, all of which grow out of the middle part,...
Lesson 59 The Beautiful Butterfly 第59课 美丽的蝴蝶 What a lovely creature a butterfly is! Look at the butterflies in the picture, flying about among the blossoms. They are getting good food from the flowers, but they are doing no harm to them...
Another way of getting caterpillars is to look for them on the under sides of the leaves of such plants as the nettle, the rose, and the hawthorn. You must feed these caterpillars on the leaves of the plant on which you found them; and as they are ve...
Lesson 58 The Creeping Caterpillar 第58课 毛毛虫向前爬 All birds lay eggs. If the eggs are kept warm, after a certain time a little bird, just like the parent birds, comes out of each egg. 鸟儿都会下蛋。如果鸟蛋能保持温暖,过一...
The fumes of burning sulphur will bleach straw, silk, and other things, and make them white and clean. These fumes are also useful for killing the germs which cause fevers and other diseases. 燃烧的硫磺冒出的烟,可以漂白稻草、丝绸和...
Lesson 57 Sulphur 第57课 硫 Did you ever have to take a mixture of brimstone and treacle? This mixture has not a pleasant taste, but it is a useful medicine; and if it will do us good, we should not care much whether it has a nice taste or not. 小朋...
One kind has in its eye a little green knob just like the head of a pin; these are called pin-eyed. The other kind has a fringe of little yellow dust-spikes instead; such flowers are called thrum-eyed. 其中一种的眼中,有一个小小的绿球,...
Lesson 56 The Yellow Primrose 黄色的报春花 Spring time has come, and the April showers have brought the yellow primroses in thousands to bloom in our woods and lanes, and on our banks and meadows. 春天来了,四月的绵绵细雨,让成千上...
But we must leave the pin, for it is the pin itself that holds the parts together. 但是必须把大头针留下,因为两块东西就是让大头针来固定的。 Pins are made of many sizes, and are either black or white in colour. They are pre...
Lesson 55 Needles and Pins 第55课 缝衣针和大头针 Let us take a needle in your hand and look at it carefully. What do you see? There is a sharp point at one end. This makes it easy to push the needle through the cloth when you are sewing. 小朋...