This book is part of a series of readers that seeks to stimulate the perceptive faculties of the pupil, provide practical information, and interest them in various arts and occupations by which hundreds of millions of persons earn their daily bread. Above all, it is hoped that the books in this series will create and foster in the mind of every young reader a just appreciation of the nobility of manual labor. In this book elocution is subordinated to instruction, -- such instruction as will aid the young learner to understand the life of the world around them. [For "The Information Readers. Number 3. Man and Materials. Boston School Series," see ED622648.]