Sunbeam (1857) (14578375927) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: sunbeam00philuoft (find matches)
Title: Sunbeam
Year: 1857 (1850s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : (S. Hough & Co.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries



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IN LAPLAND. Here is a picture just out of Charlies pocket.He says it makes him shiver to look at it. I sup-pose that he thinks the people are cohl. Vol. VT.—306. (193j Dkc. 0, 1S80. 194 ^^^^ SVjYBEAM. They are a little people with a little name ; willyou say it over after me ?— The Laps of Lap-land. We can put our finger on their country—that is, if we will look on a map and findLapland, far up on the continent of Europe. It is very cold there, except in July and Au-gust, when, far up north, the sun does not godown for several weeks. Isnt that strange ? If we had a boy here from Lapland, we wouldsay, Little Lap, tell us about your people athome. He might say, ^ We do not have towns likeyours; we live in queer little mud huts shapedlike a cone, or in tents covered with skins tokeep out the cold. We like to fish and hunt. ^ Little Lap, have you horses ? Xo, we have reindeer; you see them in thepicture. Our people drive over the frozen riv-ers. Look how swiftly they go in sleds dra