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What is this man doing?

He is working with a spade.

That is his work.

What is this woman doing?

She is working with her needle.

That is her work.

What is this man doing?

He is making shoes.

He is a shoemaker.

That is his work.

These are shoes.

These are boots.

He makes boots and shoes.

That is his work.

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What is this man doing?

He is putting paint on the door.

He is painting the door.

He is a painter.

That is his work.

This is his paint.

This is his brush.

He puts the paint on with his paint brush.

This is addition.

The boy is doing addition.

That is his work.

This is a bank.

This is a check.

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We keep money in banks.

Banking is an important sort of business.

Men and women in banks and business houses keep accounts.

This is an account.

Keeping accounts is an important part of business.

Keeping accounts is one sort of work.

These are account books.

Farming is another sort of work.

This is a farm.

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This is a cart.

This is a plow.

The plow is turning up the earth.

This is a field.

The farmer is plowing the field.

That is part of his work as a farmer.

The farmer has an account with his bank.

He puts his money in the bank.

He keeps money in the bank.

He gets money from the bank.

The account says how much money he has in the bank.

Farming and keeping accounts are two different sorts of work.

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What sort of work is this man doing?

He is cutting wood.

What sort of work is this woman doing?

She is washing stockings and dresses.

What sort of work does this man do?

He keeps a store.

It is a fruit store.

He is a storekeeper.

What sort of work does this woman do?

She keeps a house.

It is her house.

She is a house keeper.

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Put your fingers across one another like this.

I have my first and second fingers across one another.

Across?

These two lines go across one another.

My second finger is over and across my first finger.

These are finger nails.

Did you put your fingers across one another?

That is right.

You have your fingers across one another.

Now take a pencil and give a touch to one finger, and then a touch to the other and then put the pencil between them.

Do this with your eyes shut.

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You will have a strange feeling.

Are two pencils touching your fingers, or is only one pencil touching them?

Do you have the strange feeling that two pencils are there?

When you were touching one finger only you seem to be touching the other?

Why is that?

Here is the answer.

When the two fingers are like this, or like this,they do their work together.

But when they are across one another they do not do their work together.

Then a touch to one sometimes seems to be a touch to the other.

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What is their work?

What do the ends of our fingers do?

Their chief work is touching.

Those fingers are touching the cover of a book.

Touching gives us knowledge.

When our eyes are shut,

or when we are looking in another direction,

or when we are not able to see,

we get knowledge through touching and feeling with our fingers.

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The chief work of the ends of our fingers is touching.

Here is a man who is not able to see.

That is a Braille book which he has before him.

He is reading the book with the ends of his fingers.

Braille letters and words are like this.

He is touching them with the ends of his fingers.

This other man is reading with his eyes.

He is not reading with his fingers.

What are those things on his nose?

They are his glasses.

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What is the work of the eyes?

Seeing.

Their work is seeing.

What is the work of the ears?

Hearing.

Their work is hearing.

What is the work of the legs?

Walking.

Walking is their chief work.

What is the work of the mouth?

Is talking or taking in food the chief work of the mouth?

I say this.

This is talk.

What is the work of the hands?

Taking things up, putting them down,getting things,giving things,making things.

We do things with our hands.