untains joined together
by high ground is called a mountain range or chain._

2. Write out the following:--"Some mountains may be called water savings
banks. The rain freezes as it falls and becomes snow. On very high
mountains this snow never melts. It gets deeper and deeper, and the
lower part turns into ice. This ice creeps slowly down the mountain side
until it comes into air that is warm enough to melt it. The water which
flows away from the ice forms a river. Many large rivers begin in
melting ice-fields."

3. Describe the picture on page 55 {Illustration of a town on the Ganges}.

Lesson 14.

[Illustration: {Palanquin}]

1. Make a copy of this little drawing. It shows you a palanquin--that
is, a box carried on poles. Rich ladies are carried from place to place
in India in palanquins of this kind.

2. Compare the life of a rich Indian girl with that of our girls.

3. "They sang 'God Save the King' for me." Who is their king? Have the
people of India ever seen him?

Lesson 15.

1. Describe the picture on page 61 {Illustration entitled "An Indian
Rajah"}.

2. Describe an elephant. Of what use is he?

3. Tell me what you know of tigers. How are tigers hunted?

Lesson 16.

1. In what way does a Burmese girl differ from an Indian girl?

2. Copy the drawing of a Burmese girl on page 66 {Illustration of
Burmese woman with an umbrella}.

3. Write out the following: "The Burmese alphabet is very hard to learn.
Dull boys often take a year to learn it. In the monks' schools the lazy
boys are sometimes punished by being made to carry the hard-working boys
on their backs up and down the schoolroom."

Lesson 17.

1. What is the difference between Burmese football and British football?

2. Describe the picture on page 68 {Illustration of boys playing Burmese
football}.

3. Write out the following: "Rice is a grass on which many seeds grow.
These seeds are eaten. Rice will only grow in wet ground. The fields are
flooded with water, and then the rice-shoots are planted. The fields
must be kept flooded until the rice is ripe. In India, men sometimes
gather the rice in small boats."

Lesson 18.

[Illustration: {Rickshaw}]

1. Copy this little drawing of a rickshaw.

2. Write out the following: "Tea is the name given to the dried leaves
and young shoots of the tea-plant. This plant is a large evergreen
shrub. It grows on the hillsides of Ceylon, and in many other places in
the East. When the