866 Rural School Leaflet. 



When you go back into the schoolroom ask your, teacher to let you 

 prepare tor your language lesson a letter to me. Then you can tell 

 me what you have seen and heard. It does not matter whether the 

 sights and sounds were enjoyed from a city yard or from the great 

 open country, the thing that does matter is whether boys and girls 

 learn to use their eyes and their ears. Who will have seen farthest stand- 

 ing out in the schoolyard under the deep November skies? Who will 

 have heard deepest? 



We are sorry to have to tell you that Mr. Jones has been obliged 

 to go back to his farm for this year. We hope he wull be able to come 

 back to you all again. You will remember him and all the good things 

 he said to you last year. Try to live up to all he taught you. It will 

 be good for you to know Mr. Jones through all the coming years. Until 

 he comes back you will write your letters to me or to some of the pro- 

 fessors in the College who may from time to time write to you. 



Try to tell me some of the things you are doing this year. Write at 

 least once a month. I believe in boys and girls and want to know 

 them. You will ask me to help you in your outdoor study and you 

 will tell me of things that interest you in your daily life. 



Faithfully your friend, 



Alice G. McCloskey 



" You ask me for the sweetest sound mine ears have ever heard? 

 A sweeter than the ripples' plash, or trilling of a bird, 

 Than tapping of the rain-drops upon the roof at night, 

 Than the sighing of the pine trees on yonder mountain height? 

 And I tell you, these are tender, yet never quite so sweet 

 As the inumiur and the cadence of the wind across the wheat." 



— Margaret E. Sangster. 



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