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STACKING IT IS MORE COMFORTABLE THAN MOWING IT— AND MORE PICTURESQUE. 



out, Fred had condescended to say so, 

 and that was joy enough for one day. 



^c $z ^c >Jc ;j: 



"Whas-s that!" 



"Nothing" but a night hawk. Now 

 yon go to sleep, boy, and let me sleep, 

 won't you? You're worse than Uncle 

 Dan's snoring." 



Then Uncle Dan turned over ; the 

 night hawk swooped only once or twice 

 again ; even the humming of the mos- 

 quito seemed to go dreamily farther 

 and farther away — away-y-y. It was 

 the end of a day, in haying time ! 



Nature and Science. 



"The present age is both a material 

 and scientific one. It is unlike any 

 which has preceded it. It did not come 

 by conquest. It broke Upon us as 

 quietly as the dawn of a summer morn- 

 ing. It has witnessed a new love for 

 Nature and an added interest in her 

 wonderful secrets and processes. It is 

 an age of searching inquiry and close 

 discussion. The false and the sham 

 will be revealed; that which cannot 

 stand discussion will go to the wall; 

 the truth will work its way out. It is 

 not only an age of demolition, but one 

 of accomplishment. It is an age of 

 material development, for it is an age 



of constructive genius. It is an age 

 of intellectual energy, for it is an age 

 of disciplined thought. It is essentially 

 an age of scientific knowledge and 

 scientific power. 



"Science is the interpretation of na- 

 ture. But nature is manifest in the 

 butterfly, the squirrel, and the robin, 

 as well as in the mammoths of the deep 

 or the mastodons of the ancients; it is 

 in the opening blade and the blooming 

 flower as well as in the burning moun- 

 tain and the blinding storm ; it is in 

 the rocks and shells as well as in the 

 invisible current which drives the ma- 

 chinery 01 our lactones or that other 

 invisible force which propels the ma- 

 chinery of our lives. There is science 

 for the child as well as science for the 

 savant. The activity of the child and 

 the wisdom of the scholar each have 

 their uses in unfolding the secrets of 

 science. 



"There is joy and fascination in na- 

 ture, for the nature that is about us is 

 in harmony with the nature that is 

 within us. 



'• 'There's a blush on the fruit and a smile on 

 the flower, 

 And a laugh on the brook as it runs to the 

 sea.' " 



— Andrew S. Draper in "American 



Education." 



