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loved the plains as well as the hills; they have been at home in the great 

 outdoors in company with sweeping winds. You, too, must find these real 

 things that, I think, have helped to make men and women great and deep. 

 You will find in this Leaflet a letter that I hope you will answer. Thou- 

 sands of boys and girls in New York State write to us very often, and 

 since you are not idle you will take advantage of the opportunity to cor- 

 respond with some one in your State College. This year yoiu" letters 

 will be written to the young man who sends a letter to you in this Leaflet. 

 If you should come to know him, as you may some day, you will find that 

 he cares very much for the outdoor world and for all that country life 

 gives. He also cares very much for boys and girls and is looking forward 

 to yoiu" letters. He may not be able to answer all letters personally, but 

 whenever a Leaflet for boys and girls is sent out you will find in it his 

 letter to you. Address all letters to Mr. Edward M. Tuttle, College of 

 Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. Ask your teacher to let you write a letter 

 each month to Mr. Tuttle during your English period. To all who write 

 three letters, we shall send a picture. 



SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW 

 WiLFORD M. Wilson 



" A splash of blue, a sweep of gray, 



Some scarlet patches on the way 

 Compose the evening sky." 



" Sunset that screens, reveals. 

 Enhancing what we see 

 By menaces of amethyst 

 And moats of mystery." 



V7hat makes the sunset red, the sky blue, the grass green, or the scarlet spot 

 on the blackbird's wing ? And why is our shadow with us all day long when 

 the sun shines ? These are hard questions ; but we live under the blue sky, 

 we see the sunset colors almost every evening, and we never can get away 

 from our shadow while the sun is shining, no matter how fast we run. Would 

 you like to know something about light, shadows, and colors? . Some 

 persons think that children cannot understand such things; but let us try. 



Sunlight has in it every color you can think of except black, which is 

 not a color at all but the absence of all colors ; and the strange thing about 

 sunlight is that when all the colors you can think of are mixed together 

 in the right proportion as they are in sunlight, they make white. White 

 is all colors mixed together and black is no color at all. 



