CORNELL 



Rural School Leaflet 



[FOR BOYS AND GIRLS] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Asrriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Office 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July x6, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 

 Professors G. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and C. EDWARD JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 3 



ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL and MAY, 1910 



No. 8 



A LETTER TO BOYS AND GIRLS 

 Dear Boys and Girls: 



Although this is the last Leaflet for the year and therefore the last 

 opportunity I shall have to write to you, I do not want you to feel that 

 I am far away; for have we not been near together, you and I, these 

 many days, through the long autumn and the winter and the early 

 spring? You may forget me, but I shall be near you always. 



I wish you were with me this evening, everyone in the school. We 

 should sit around a great fireplace and talk things over the while we 

 popped corn and cracked hickory nuts. We should be very happy 

 through the long evening. Wouldn't you at such a time hke to have 

 a heavy rain storm outside with great wild winds? May be you would 

 rather have a clear cold night with starlight and moonlight. I like 

 one as well as the other. Since this merry time cannot be, however, with 



