898 Rural School Leaflet. 



in preparation for this we want to have the children get as many facts 

 as they can from their own observations of the animals. It would be 

 well for the teacher to start a scrapbook in which will be kept all 

 the pictures and facts that the children can find concerning the above 

 named animals. ■ After they have acquired some knowledge in this 

 way the teacher will get better results next month from the suggestions 

 that will be given in the Leaflet for further observations. Some real 

 live work could be done in the study of these different animals. We 

 shall be glad to receive any compositions and drawings the children 

 are willing to send to us. 



Fig. 22. — Chipim 



"Whoever saw squirrels in winter? The naturalists say they are mostly 

 torpid; yet evidently that little pocket-faced depredator, the chipmunk, was not 

 carrying buckwheat for so many days to his hole for nothing; was he anticipat- 

 ing a state of torpidity, or providing against the demands of a very act^vf 

 appetite?"— 7 o/iu Burroughs in The Snow-Walkers 



