Nature-Study, 67 



Dear Uncle John: 



I have something I would Hke to tell you. The other clay the 

 hired man was picking apples in the top of one of the trees. He 

 found an old robin's nest and pieces of corncobs. 1 think it was a 

 squirrel's work, because we have a walnut tree in our yard. 



Tuesday morning papa was barreling apples. He told me to go up 

 and get a barrel out of the corn crib. When I was getting it out, I 

 looked in it and there was a big, black butterfly. I took it to the 

 house till I went to school. When I went to school I took it along 

 and the teacher said we would keep it in the school house and see 

 how long it would live, for it would freeze to death out-of-doors. 



For the next meeting we are going to study about different kinds 

 of leaves. To-day the boys started out looking for something to 

 bring before the next meeting. 



I am sure we would all enjoy it for you to come and visit us. 



Yours truly, 



Walter. 



Dear Uncle John: 



About three weeks ago I found an insect on a leaf of corn; it was 

 fastened on by a woolly string. When I found him, he was green 

 with gold spots on him. We kept him awhile and he begun to have 

 black streaks on him. We have had him about three weeks and it is 

 beginning to crack his shell. There is a little green on him yet. His 

 sides are red with black streaks on them. There are some white 

 spots coming on him. The upper part where he is fastened to the 

 corn has rings running about it. His shell is clear now. We can see 

 his mouth and eyes. Yours truly, 



Morton. 



Dear Uncle John: 



We have a terrarium which was made out of an old umbrella rack. 

 I had some screen around it. We have a broad-winged katydid, 

 grasshoppers, and some angle worms, and a caterpillar that we call a 

 woolly bear. There is a salamander in there, but he is down among 

 the rocks and dirt. There are two frogs and some crickets. The 

 frogs are asleep under dirt and stones. There is some moss in the 

 terrarium. We planted some grass in one corner of the terrariunu 

 There are some oats in the other corner of the terrarium that we 

 planted. 



