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Rural School Leaflet. 



Natiire-Study lesson for the month is on hens. You could not begin 

 this lesson in a better way than to make your first observation on hens 

 in a poultry yard. I wish I might be with you on this trip. We would 

 look over the fence into the poultry yard and you would see more things 

 of interest, I suppose, in five minutes than I would in a half hour. Young 

 eyes see many things that older folk seem to have lost the power to see. 

 While you are learning about the hen this month, we wish you would 

 have one in the school room. A cage such as you see in the illustration 

 would be a good place to keep it. Perhaps some of the boys would be 

 able to make a cage out of old window screens. Any enclosed place 

 through which you can see as you study life in the schoolroom, will 

 do. If you have a cage with a hen in it your teacher will doubtless let 

 you make some observations after your other lessons are finished. Later 

 in the month you will write us what you have learned about hens. 



Earning his living 



THE VESPER SPARROW 



Arthur A. Allen 

 Where is the boy who has not found a " Ground-bird's " nest? Where 

 the boy who feels no thrill when the bird flutters from beneath his 



