Uncle Ben is a real pleasant old gentleman, and one the children around home all like because he knows how to tell just the very best kind of stories.
In some way Uncle Ben has found out that all the little boys and girls like to hear stories, too, and he would like very much to go around and visit you all, but that would take too long, and some of you would get tired waiting. So in place of a personal visit, Uncle Ben has decided to print his stories in book form so that you may all have them right away.
He tells you about very common things, such as air, water, sunshine, fire, smoke, glass, coal, salt, paper, matches, etc., but he tells so many remarkable things about how they are made, and what they are made of, that you begin to wonder if they are really the things that you have been using every day. Uncle Ben is a good man, too, and so, of course, weaves in little lessons of truth that will help you to grow up and be good and kind, too.
You would give one cent, and more, too, if you had it, wouldn't you, to hear a good story? Well, try Uncle Ben, he gives you more than 200 pages of stories, and about twice that number of pictures for only 75 cents.
