That day it met two new families on the beach, the Lime family and the Iron family. These three families liked each other so well that they decided to live together. Not long after this, when they were settled for the day, a rainstorm came and beat down steadily upon them. The lime grew soft, gluing the sand into one large lump, like a stone. It took many years to make this stone. Don't you think sandstone is a good name for a stone made of sand? The Iron family is of a great many colors, -- red, yellow, brown, and even green. They gave some of their color to the sandstone, and that is the reason we have red, green, and yellow sandstones as well as white. -20- |