Rural School Leaflet 1087 



fighting against it. The old saying that we see often in mottos, " Do it 

 now," is a good one when we really stop to think what it means. 

 Therefore, whenever we have an impulse to do some good and worth 

 while thing, let us do it at once, and it will be astonishing how much 

 we accomplish. 



Very often we hear it said, ''Oh, I haven't time." Perhaps we have 

 said it ourselves. If we thinly a minute we will see that what we mean is 

 that we do not care to take time for the thing in question. We need 

 constantly to use our time so that we shall always be doing the most 

 worth while thing. No little thing that we have decided to do should 

 stand in the way of a bigger thing that presents itself. The only limit 

 that we have is that of duty, which may sometimes necessitate our doing 

 what seems to be the lesser thing. In this case, however, the doing of it 

 often gives it greater value. 



Perhaps, at first, you will not understand what I have just written, but 

 if you will read it over now and then during the next few years, I think 

 you will come to see what I mean. It is a fine lesson to learn. 



It is time to say good-bye. I shall be thinking of you all during the 

 time between now and next November. Perhaps I shall see and talk with 

 some of you. At any rate I shall look for your letters, and expect to find 

 in them a report of the good things you are doing, and how you are growing 

 day by day in knowledge and in friendship for the world of nature and of 

 folk. 



Your friend. 



LETTERS FROM GIRLS AND BOYS 



District 9, Town of Otsego, Otsego County 



Cooperstown, New York, December 22, T014 

 Dear Mr. Tuttle: 



I am going to write and tell you about our chickens which were raised 

 on the school ground by the boys in this district. 



The hen and eggs were given to us by a man who took a great deal of 

 interest in our school. The hen was set on fifteen eggs in a dark corner of 

 the woodhouse. Everything went all right until one day the door blew 

 open, and the hen went outdoors for a long time. We were all very much 

 frightened and afraid the eggs would get cold and would not hatch, but 

 we let her have her ovm way After a time she went back on her nest. 

 When school was out we closed the door and she was all right again. 

 We fed her every day and gave her fresh water. 



