[Illustration: "WHAT CAN YOU SEE FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL?"]

What can you see from the top of the hill--meadow, river, lake, town?
What grow on the hill? What live on the hill?

Which part of a hill is called the base, or foot? The slope, or sides?
The top, or summit?

Give two names for the lowest part of a hill. Two for the highest part.
Two for the part between the highest and lowest parts.

Parts of the land very much higher than the surrounding country are
called _mountains_. Mountains are much higher than hills. Have you ever
seen a steeple one hundred feet high? A mountain is as high as twenty
such steeples, one on the top of the other. How high the mountains must
be!

Some mountains reach away above the clouds. Their white tops seem to
touch the sky. A man on the summit of one saw the clouds beneath his
feet, while the sun shone where he stood. When it lightened he saw the
flash far below him.

Is it warm or cold at the tops of mountains? With what are many high
mountains covered, even in summer?

The land between mountains or hills is called a _valley_. Is there a
valley near here? What do you call the ground on either side?

Would you like best to live on the mountains or in the valley? Why?