t. They carry the fruit
on a pole across the back of their shoulders. A basket of fruit hangs
from each end of the pole, as you see in the picture. The boys sell
milk. They carry it about in little wagons drawn by dogs. They are
very kind to the dogs. They do not make them draw too heavy a load.

[Illustration: A Dutch Milkmaid.]

When a baby is born in Holland, some one hangs a silk ball outside the
door. If the baby is a boy, they hang up a red ball; and if it is a
girl, they hang up a pink ball. Is not this a good way to let their
friends know they have a new baby?

PATAGONIA.

Have you ever seen a man with pictures on his body? Perhaps you have
seen a sailor with a picture of a ship on his arm. In Patagonia nearly
all the men and boys have pictures on their bodies. Patagonia is in
the southern part of the world. It is winter in that country when it
is summer here, and summer there when it is winter here.

Patagonia is a very flat country. There are very few hills and no
large trees or fine flowers there. But there is plenty of good grass,
which sometimes grows very tall.

The people in Patagonia are Indians. They have red-brown skin, long
black hair, and small eyes. The men are very tall. Some of them are
seven feet high. They paint their faces red and black, and tattoo
their arms. They do this with a needle. They put the needle into dye,
and then prick the skin with it.

The men wear a piece of cloth around their waists and a large cloak of
fur. They sometimes wear boots made of the skin of horses' legs. The
women wear gowns fastened at the neck with a pin. They also have
cloaks like the men.

[Illustration: Patagonians at Home.]

The boys and girls wear no clothes until they are four years old.
After they are four years old they wear the same kind of clothes their
fathers and mothers wear. The young girls wear their hair in braids.
If their hair is not long enough, they make it longer by tying
horsehair to it.

The houses in Patagonia are tents made of skins. There are rooms in
the tents, and each grown-up person has a room. The fire is made
inside the tent on the floor.

The people in Patagonia eat gua-na-co and ostrich meat. Some of the
people drink a kind of tea made from the leaves of a plant. The leaves
are first crushed fine, then put into water. They drink this tea
through a small tube with many holes in it. The holes are so small
that the pieces of leave