that the most agile Junior Naturalist would scarcely dare to compete 

 with him in a race, and he can talk faster than any lassie in school. 

 Do you think you will be able to find him and tell me his name? 



I earnestly hope, boys and girls, that in studying seed travelers 

 you will try and find many of which I have not spoken. In order 

 to do this you will have to go out into the fields and woods where a 

 great teacher is waiting for you. Patiently will she instruct you 

 over and over again, so that whatever you may fail to learn in one 

 lesson you will acquire in some other. The work will be so inter- 

 esting that you will be happy when you learn that in her books there 

 are no last pages. When I read your letters I shall know whether 

 you are really I^ature's students. I shall consider that you have 

 done excellent work if you find ten seed travelers and tell me a few 

 facts about them. When your lesson is prepared suppose you send 

 the seeds to me and I shall give them to boys and girls in large 

 cities who cannot go out into the fields in search of them. Will it 

 not be a pleasure to help other members of the club in this way ? 



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