THE INDUSTRIAL READERS
Book II
DIGGERS IN THE
EARTH
BY
EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D.
Author of "England's Story," "American Hero Stories,"
"Old World Hero Stories," "Story of the Greek People,"
"Story of the Roman People," etc. Editor of
"The Children's Hour."
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
THE INDUSTRIAL READERS
By Eva March Tappan
| I. | THE FARMER AND HIS FRIENDS. 50 cents. |
| II. | DIGGERS IN THE EARTH. 50 cents. |
| III. | MAKERS OF MANY THINGS. 50 cents. |
| IV. | TRAVELERS AND TRAVELING. 50 cents. |
The foregoing are list prices, postpaid
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY EVA MARCH TAPPAN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
First printing April 1916;
Reprinted December 1916
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
U. S. A.
PREFACE
The four books of this series have been writtennot merely to provide agreeable reading matter forchildren, but to give them information. When achild can look at a steel pen not simply as an articlefurnished by the city for his use, but rather as theresult of many interesting processes, he has made adistinct growth in intelligence. When he has begunto apprehend the fruitfulness of the earth, bothabove ground and below, and the best way in whichits products may be utilized and carried to theplaces where they are needed, he has not only acquireda knowledge of many kinds of industrial lifewhich may help him to choose his life-work wiselyfrom among them; but he has learned the dependenceof one person upon other persons, of one part ofthe world upon other parts, and the necessity ofpeaceful intercourse. Best of all, he has learned tosee. Wordsworth's familiar lines say of a man whoseeyes had not been opened,—
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more."
These books are planned to show the children thatthere is "something more"; to broaden their horizon;to reveal to them what invention has accomplishedand what wide room for invention stillremains; to teach them that reward comes to the[Pg iv]man who improves his output beyond the task of themoment; and that success is waiting not for him whoworks because he must, but him who works becausehe may.
Acknowledgment is due to the Lehigh ValleyRailroad, Jones Brothers Company, Alpha PortlandCement Company, Dwight W. Woodbridge, theUtah Copper Company, the Aluminum Companyof America, the Diamond Crystal Salt Company,T. W. Rickard, and others, whose advice and criticismhave been of most valuable aid in the preparationof this volume.
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