When you and i are together you often asj me questions about many things and i try answer them. Now that you are at mussoorie and i am in allahbad we connot have these talks. I am therefore going to write to you from time to time short account of the story of our earth and the many countries great and small, history. But england is only a little island and india, though a big country, is only a small part of the earth's surface. If we want to know something about the stiry of this world of ours we must think of all the countries and all the people that have inhabited it,and not merely of one little country where we may have been born.
I am afraid i can only tell you very little in these letters if mine. But that little, i hobe, will interest you and make you think of the world as a whole, and of other peoples in it as our brother and sister. When you grow ul you will read about the story of the earth and her people in fat books and you will find it more interesting then any other story or nevel that you may have read.
You know of course that our eart is very, very old- millions and millions of years old. And for a long time there were no men or women living in it. Brfore the men came there were only animals, there was a time when no kind of life existwx on the ea4th. It is difficult to imageine this world ofours, which is so full today of all kinds of animals and men, to be without them. But scientists and those who have studied and thought a great deal about these matters us that there wad a time when the earts was too hot for ani living being to live on it. And if we read their books and study the rocks and the fossils (the remains of old animela) we can ourselves see that this must have been so.