Their food is mostly rice. All the family do not eat
together. The father of the family always eats first. When he has
eaten, the mother and children sit down to eat.
The women do most of the work. So the girls have to learn to work.
But the men and boys do all the sewing. How queer this seems!
[Illustration: An Elephant Piling Lumber.]
There are a great many wild beasts in India--tigers, leopards, cobras,
and crocodiles. The tigers are very fierce. They sometimes come into
villages at night and carry off men, women or children, and kill and
eat them. There are logs. They do work of many kinds. An elephant is
much stronger than a horse. He can carry a far heavier load.
Sometimes all the family ride on one elephant's back.
[Illustration: Riding on an Elephant.]
LAPLAND.
Jingle! jingle! jingle! Where does the merry sound come from? It
comes from a sleigh drawn by a reindeer. The sleigh is called a
"pulk'ha." It is made of birch wood. It has no runners. It goes on a
little keel like that on the bottom of a boat. The sleigh is very low.
It is pointed at the front like a rowboat, and is flat at the back.
There are no seats in it.
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