Q.What is a forest?
A.Many large trees growing over a great deal of the land is a forest.
Q.What are hills?
A.Parts of the ground which rise higher than the rest.

Q.What is a desert?
A.A part of the earth where nothing will grow, and which is covered with hot sand.

Q.What is a valley?
A.A part of the earth which is lower than the rest, with hills at each side.

Q.Who made all that we have been speaking of?
A.Almighty God.
I can remember the time when no national school in England possessed a _map_.

It was thought dangerous to teach geography, as in fact anything but cramming the memory, and reading and writing.