The Indian boys sometimes play at fighting battles. They form
themselves into two armies, and one army fights against the other.
They fight with balls of wet clay. Often the battle lasts two or three
hours.
Indian girls have dolls, and they dress them and sing them to sleep.
They play "house," and often have doll-house moving.
[Illustration: Indian Girls.]
Indian men and boys are fond of swimming, and they are very good
swimmers. They are also fond of sailing in their canoes. The canoe
is made of the bark of the birch tree. The Indians paddle their
canoes. They can make them go very fast.
Many of the Indians now live in houses and have farms the same as white
men, and they raise corn and vegetables and fruit. They have horses
and cows and sheep as other farmers have. And we may hope that before
long the Red Men will live in the same way as white men, and be as well
off and as happy.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
The Philippine Islands are far away on the other side of the earth,
near China. There are a great many of these islands. Most of them are
small. But some of them are large islands, and many people live on
them. The largest of the islands is called Luzon.
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