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The fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton fabric dated from 5000 BC have been excavated in Mexico and the Indus Valley Civilization in Ancient India (modern-day Pakistan and some parts of India). Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

The earliest evidence of cotton use in South Asia has been found at the site of Mehrgarh, Pakistan, where cotton threads have been found preserved in copper beads; these finds have been dated to Neolithic (between 6000 and 5000 BCE). Cotton cultivation in the region is dated to the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered parts of modern eastern Pakistan and northwestern India between 3300 and 1300 BCE The Indus cotton industry was well-developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the industrialization of India. Between 2000 and 1000 BC cotton became widespread across much of India. For example, it has been found at the site of Hallus in Karnataka dating from around 1000 BC.
1. Where was cotton used earliest?
2. What is the fiber usually spun into?
3. And what is it used to make?
4. Fabric discovered in Mexico was dated from when?
5. What is Ancient India now called?
6. Was there an invention that lowered production costs?
7. What was it?
8. What is the most commonly used material in clothing today?
9. Where was the earliest evidence of cotton being in use found?
10. At what particular site?
11. What have threads been found preserved in?
12. To what period have they been dated?
13. What is the range of years in that period?
14. When did cotton become common across India?
15. Has it been found in Karnataka?
16. At what location?
17. From what time?
18. Was cotton grown in the Indus Valley?
19. What parts did this Valley cover?
20. In what time period?

Numbered answers:
1. since prehistoric times
2. into yarn or thread
3. a soft, breathable textile
4. from 5000 BC
5. modern-day Pakistan and some parts of India
6. yes
7. the cotton gin
8. cotton
9. South Asia
10. at the site of Mehrgarh, Pakistan
11. copper beads
12. to Neolithic
13. between 6000 and 5000 BCE
14. Between 2000 and 1000 BC
15. yes
16. at the site of Hallus
17. around 1000 BC
18. yes
19. parts of modern eastern Pakistan and northwestern India
20. between 3300 and 1300 BCE

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CHAPTER X. NOBLESSE OBLIGE

The other won't agree thereto, So here they fall to strife; With one another they did fight About the children's life. Babes in the Wood.

"I say, Aunt Cherry," said Adrian, "the fossil forest is to be uncovered to-morrow, and Merrifield is going to stay for it, and I'm going down with him."

"Fossil forest? What, in the Museum?"

"No, indeed. In Anscombe Cove, they call it. There's a forest buried there, and bits come up sometimes. To-morrow there's to be a tremendous low tide that will leave a lot of it uncovered, and Merrifield and I mean to dig it out, and if there are some duplicate bits they may be had for the bazaar."

"Yes, they have been begging Fergus's duplicates for a collection of fossils," said Anna. "But can it be safe? A low tide means a high tide, you know."

"Bosh!" returned Adrian.

"Miss Mohun is sure to know all about the tides, I suppose," said Clement; "if her nephew goes with her consent I suppose it is safe."

"If-" said Mrs. Grinstead.

Adrian looked contemptuous, and muttered something, on which Anna undertook to see Miss Mohun betimes, and judge how the land, or rather the sea, lay, and whether Fergus was to be trusted.

It would be a Saturday, a whole holiday, on which he generally went home for Sunday, and Adrian spent the day with him, but the boys' present scheme was, to take their luncheon with them and spend the whole day in Anscombe Cove. This was on the further side of the bay from the marble works, shut in by big cliffs, which ran out into long chains of rocks on either side, but retreated in the midst, where a little stream from the village of Anscombe, or rather from the moorland beyond, made its way to the sea.
1. What is happening tomorrow?
2. Who said so?
3. Who was he talking to?
4. Where was this to take place?
5. Who is staying for it?
6. What is going to cause it to be visible??
7. How are they going to gather the fossils?
8. Would they get to do something with the duplicates?
9. What?
10. Who thought it wasn't safe?
11. What would make it unsafe?

Numbered answers:
1. the fossil forest is to be uncovered
2. Adrian
3. Aunt Cherry
4. In Anscombe Cove
5. Merrifield
6. a tremendous low tide
7. dig it out
8. yes
9. for the bazaar
10. Anna
11. A low tide

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CHAPTER SEVEN.

THE MIDDY OBTAINS A DECIDED ADVANCE, AND MAKES PETER THE GREAT HIS CONFIDANT.

Many months passed, after the events narrated in the last chapter, before George Foster had the good-fortune to meet again with Hugh Sommers, and several weeks elapsed before he had the chance of another interview with the daughter.

Indeed, he was beginning to despair of ever again seeing either the one or the other, and it required the utmost energy and the most original suggestions of a hopeful nature on the part of his faithful friend to prevent his giving way altogether, and having, as Peter expressed it, "anoder fit ob de blues."

At last fortune favoured him. He was busy in the garden one day planting flowers, when Peter came to him and said--

"I's got news for you to-day, Geo'ge."

"Indeed," said the middy, with a weary sigh; "what may your news be?"

"You 'member dat pictur' ob de coffee-house in de town what you doo'd?"

"Yes, now you mention it, I do, though I had almost forgotten it."

"Ah! but I not forgit 'im! Well, yesterday I tuk it to massa, an' he bery much pleased. He say, bring you up to de house, an' he gib you some work to do."

"I wish," returned Foster, "that he'd ask me to make a portrait of little Hester Sommers."

"You forgit, Geo'ge, de Moors neber git deir portraits doo'd. Dey 'fraid ob de evil eye."

"Well, when are we to go up?"

"Now--I jist come for you."
1. who came to visit George?
2. and who came to him to deliver some news?
3. what was his news?
4. how long had it been since George met with Hugh?
5. was George beginning to despair?
6. how did Peter describe it when he felt that way?
7. who is a middy?
8. what was he doing when Peter arrived?
9. was it fortunate that Peter had come to him?
10. when were they supposed to go visit the master?
11. what was George going to do for him?
12. what did Foster wish he asked him?
13. what did Peter say they never do?
14. why don't they?
Numbered answers:
1. Hugh Sommers
2. Peter
3. His master has work for George
4. many months
5. yes
6. "anoder fit ob de blues."
7. George
8. planting flowers
9. yes
10. now
11. some work
12. to make a portrait of little Hester Sommers
13. get their portraits done
14. They're afraid of the evil eye