Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book TwoThis series is intended for the use of beginners in reading. They are not offered as text-books in natural science, but rather as a contribution to the idea that faces of real and permanent value, may be made known, a noble taste may be cultivated, thought may be developed, and the initiatory steps in an increasingly popular study may be taken. |
Contents
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| vii | |
| 1 | |
| 3 | |
| 5 | |
| 7 | |
| 9 | |
Food for Mr Crab | 13 |
More About Bees | 66 |
Review | 69 |
All About Spiders | 70 |
The Spider at Home | 78 |
The Little Nest | 81 |
The Spider and His Food | 84 |
Other Interesting Spiders | 87 |
Review | 91 |
Some Other Crabs | 15 |
The Hermit Crab | 18 |
The Crabs Enemies | 21 |
The Uses of Crabs | 24 |
Review | 27 |
All About Wasps | 28 |
What Mrs Wasp Can Do | 30 |
A Look at Mrs Wasp | 33 |
Mrs Wasp Cares For Her Babies | 36 |
Mrs Wasp at Home | 39 |
Review | 42 |
All About Bees | 43 |
The Bee Colony | 46 |
Worker Bees | 50 |
Baby Bees | 52 |
Battle of the Queen Bees | 54 |
The Worker Bee | 57 |
The Wise Bees | 59 |
Other Bees | 62 |
The Spider Web | 92 |
All About Shellfish | 93 |
Shellfish | 97 |
The Story of Mr Conch | 101 |
Baby Conchs | 104 |
About Mr Drill | 108 |
The Story of a Battle | 111 |
How Do Shelffish Eat? | 114 |
Review | 118 |
All About Worm | 119 |
Mr Earthworm at Home | 123 |
Mr Worm at Work | 129 |
Worms That Live by the Sea | 134 |
Mr Worm at Home | 137 |
Review | 143 |
Epilogue | 145 |
The Boy That Never Sees | 148 |
Common terms and phrases
baby bees baby spiders baby wasp ball bee lives beebread big claw birds bite blue crab build called catch cells coat color Conch crab lives crab's creatures dead door drill drone bee drones earthworm exoskeleton eye-pegs eyes feelers feet fish flies foot goes grow grub hard head hermit crab hide hive hole honey hooks horseshoe crab Huber insects Interesting Spiders keep kill kind of spider kind of wasp kinds of crabs larva lay eggs leaves legs limpets look mollusk Moth mouth nectar nest nurse bees oyster pollen propolis pulls pupa puts queen bee rings round royal jelly sand seaweed shape shell shellfish silk skin soft body soil spider spin spinnerets stem stinger string tail takes tell thick things tide tiny tongue Tower Spider tubes wasp's wings worker bees worm helps Worm's young