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Title: Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Chalk-talks Moral education Religious education
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Meigs Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he abund-ance of water, caused them to grow so profusely. (Draw the sun inorange, completing Fig. 72.) Then, the geologists tell us, there camea great change. There were awful volcanic disturbances which causedthe sea to overflow great areas of these trees and bushes and ferns, andthey were buried from sight by a vast expanse of water. Gradually,though, another change came. The waters receded Into lesser areasand the ground arose from beneath the waves. But the trees and thebushes and the ferns were gone. Where? They had been burieddeep beneath the mud and sand and stones which the waters hadwashed over them. Then, after that, God created the monster mas-todon and the mammoth and many other beasts which have since dis-appeared from the earth, and finally man was created to have dominionover the earth. For many centuries afterward, no one knew that theearth was once the place of immense trees, and ferns and rank vege-table growth which had since been buried beneath the surface. But 118
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119 one day. Some Of this old, buried vegetable matter was found andbrought to the surface of the earth. By that time it was not greenany longer. It was hard and compact and looked very much likeblack stone. Someone seemed to think it would burn if fire were ap-plied to it. And, strange to say, it did burn.Thus was coal discovered. Ever since then, we have been digging from the depths of theearth the coal which was deposited there in those ages of the past.And it is blessing the world everywhere. (With the broad side of yourblack crayon, quickly cover the vegetation of Fig. 72. Then, withbroad strokes of the orange chalk, or with a combination of the yel-low and the red, draw the flames, completely covering the sun, andfinishing Fig. 73.) Coal is now the chief of the elements which bringwarmth to our homes, our places of business and everywhere that weare spending our time indoors; it is the great factor in our greatmanufacturing and transportation enterprises. God laid it all up foru

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