AN ESSAY ON BONES.
The Itruiurksible Lotiipotltloii of
American Schoolboy.
Hones are the framework of the body.
If I had no bones in me. I should not
have so much motion, and grandmother
would be glad, but I like to have
motion. IJoiioh give mo motion because
they arc hard for motion
to cling to. If I had no bones, my
brains, lungs, heart nnd large
would bo bylng around in me
and might get hurted. but now the
bones get burted, but-not much unless
it is a hard hit.
If inj bones were burned I should bo
brittle, because It would take the animal
out of inc. If I were soaked iu
acid 1 should lie limber. Teacher
showed us a bone thut hud been
soaked 1 could 1 end it easily. I
would rather be soaked than burned.
Some of my bones don't grow close to
my body, snug, like the branches of a
tree, ami I am giau tney don t, for if
they did I could not play leap-frog and
other nice gumes 1 know I
The reason they don't grow snug to
my body Is because they hae joints.
Joints Is good things to have In bones.
There are two kinds. Tho ball and
socket, like my shoulder. Is best.
Teacher showed it to me, only it was
the thigh-bone of an o.. One end was
round, smooth and whitish. That is 1
the ball end. The other end wus hollowed !
in deep. That is the socket, nnd.
