TRAINING SCHOOL READER. EDITED BY WILLIAM J. UNWIN, M.A., PRINCIPAL OF HOMERTON COLLEGE. SECOND BOOK. London: WARD AND CO., 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. (500.w.171. 342 5% 67 BRITAIN UNDER THE ROMANS...... 6 THE PLANTAGENET LINE. 31 60 70 79 88 97 ...... 198 DISTRIBUTION OF LAND AND WATER 109 OROGRAPHY.................................................................... 177 153 HYDROGRAPHY ................................................... 219 Latural Philosophy. THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS ......... 169 THE TUDOR LINE English Bistory. ........................ 116 THE STUART LINE ........................ THE TUDOR LINE .......................................................... 128 THE STUART LINE THE TUDOR LINE ........................ 140 THE STUART LINE THE STUART LINE........................ 149 REVOLUTION OF 1668 THE STUART LINE................................................................ 159 THE STUART LINE 143 ....... 151 THE LOVE OF GOD........................ 197 207 THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL... 162 ASTRONOMY.............. TRAINING SCHOOL READER. SECTION I. LESSON I.-MONDAY. DIVISION OF LABOUR. THE Cotton, of which a coloured neckcloth or a piece of lace is formed, may be supposed to have been grown by some Tenessee or Louisiana planter. For this purpose he must have employed labourers, in preparing the soil and planting and attending to the shrub, for more than a year before its pod ripened. When the pod became ripe, considerable labour, assisted by ingenious machinery, was necessary to extricate the seeds from the wool. The fleece thus cleaned was carried down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and there sold to a cotton factor. The price at which it was sold must have been sufficient, in the first place, to repay to the planter the wages which had been paid by him to all those employed in its production and carriage; and, secondly, to pay hím a profit proportioned to the time which had elapsed between the payment of those wages and the sale of the cotton; or, in other words, to remunerate him for his abstinence in having so long deprived himself of the use of his money, or of the pleasure which he might have received from the labour of his work-people, if, instead of cultivating cotton, he had employed them in contributing to his own immediate enjoyment. The New Orleans factor, after keeping it perhaps five or six months, sold it to a Liverpool merchant. Scarcely any labour could have been expended on it at New Orleans, and, in the absence of accidental circumstances, its B |