CORNELL 



R\iral ScKool Leaflet 



[FOR BOYS AND GIRLS] 



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

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

 lit Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



ARTHUR D. DEAN, C. EDWARD JONES, G. F. WARREN, and C. H. TUCK, Advisers 



Vol. 5 ITHACA, N. Y., JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1912 No. 3 



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SNOW STORM 



" With windy haste and wild halloo 



the sheeting snow comes down 

 And drives itself through bush and swale 



and leagues of stubble brown. 

 Blessings on the waiting fields when 



the sheeting snow comes down." — L. H. B. 



From Thoreau's " Walden " 



" Meanwhile also came the chicadees in flocks, which, picking up the 

 crumbs the squirrels had dropped, flew to the nearest twig, and placing 

 them under their claws, hammered away at them with their little bills, 

 as if it were an insect in the bark, till they were sufficiently reduced for 

 their slender throats. A little flock of these tit-mice came daily to pick 

 a dinner out of my wood-pile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting 

 lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly 

 day day day, or more rarely, in springlike days, a wiry summery phe-be 

 from the woodside. They were so familiar that at length one alighted 

 on an armful of wood which I was carrying in, and pecked at the sticks 

 without fear." 



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