1 5 o NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



were able to meet cheerfully such adversities, most of weather con- 

 ditions, as might tend to discourage. No greater boon can come 

 to any boy than such an experience as the members of the Johnny 

 Island camp made for themselves during thirteen consecutive 

 years. 



Nature at Cowasset 



Edith V. Douglas 



Nature is such a vital part of the daily program at Cowasset 

 that it is difficult to say just what part it plays and just where 

 it comes in our camp life. I should say it is present nearly every 

 moment. 



Cowasset is ideally situated in a fragrant pine woods on the 

 shore of Buzzards Bay, and Cowasset girls are particularly fortu- 

 nate in being able to study not only the beauties of the fields and 

 woods but to become acquainted with the peculiar little strangers 

 of the shore. 



The road from Junior to Senior Camp is a path cut through the 

 woods and as the little Juniors saunter back and forth from 

 Senior, they make many interesting observations and their enthus- 

 iasm is very keen. Always before dinner and supper bells my tent 

 would be invaded with Juniors bringing in specimens of flowers 

 or exclaiming excitedly about a bird they had just seen. 



Of course, in order to get their nature point the girls are required 

 to identify twenty-five flowers, twenty-five birds, fifteen trees, 

 fifteen insects, fifteen small animals and ten ferns and mosses. 

 I found that the girls were much interested in getting this point 

 and there were few girls in camp who did not accomplish it before 

 the summer was over. 



The girls (especially the Juniors) were very proud of their 

 note books and there was much competition among them as to 

 whose would be the most original or whose would be the neatest. 

 In these note books the girls kept lists of the birds, flowers, etc., 

 that they had observed, made drawings and sometimes wrote up 

 short stories about the particular thing observed. On rainy 

 days the time was spent in leaf printing sheets for the note books 

 and in coloring in bird and flower sheets. 



