CORNELL 



R-ural ScKool Leaflet 



SUPPLEMENT FOR THE CHILDREN 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University, from September to May. L. H. Bailey, Director. 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 

 Professors G. F. WARREN and CHARLES H. TUCK, Advisers 



Vol. I. ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1907. No. 2 



WEATHER LESSONS. 

 By Alice G. McCloskey. 



" There is a game the children play 

 In country districts far away, 

 As quiet as the rains and snows 

 And native as the grass that grows. 

 ' Wind blows ' they call tliis simple game 

 And all the fields is in the name." 



" Oh children, children, many a day 

 I've followed the winds in fields away. 

 To birds a-wing and the river-flows 

 To meadows free where the wild phlox grows, 

 When woods and shores and life were the aim 

 And texts and schools were only a name. 



" And I never will be so old and gray 

 But I'll track the winds in their wander-way." 



L. H. B. 



There is one thing that everybody lives with, everybody whether in 

 the city, in the country, on the desert, on the sea, in the jungle, or in 

 the northern lands, — this is the weather. It is, therefore, one of the im- 

 portant subjects in the study of the out-of-doors. Study of the weather 

 is one of the lessons that gives rich return for things that we come to 

 learn in connection with it. 



It is worth the while to have the right spirit toward the weather. 

 There are some people who are always complaining about it, finding it 

 either too hot or too cold, too windy or too rainy, too wet or too dry, 

 which shows that they have not learned to know the weather. To one 

 whose spirit grows aright, the rainy day should have its charms just as 

 the sunny day has. One should love both the calm days and the blustery 

 days. He should be "in tune with wind and weather." 



Let us have some lessons this year on the weather; let us see how 

 nearly we can touch the real out-of-doors. We might begin with the 



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