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Cut the pumpkin open. What do you find inside the shiny yellow 

 shell? How many seeds do you find in the pumpkin? How are the 

 seeds arranged? Where are they attached? Compare the stem of a 

 pumpkin with the stem of a Hubbard squash. 



Fig. 4. — Preparing the pumpkin for the Thanksgiving dinner. 



NATURE-STUDY CORNER. 



What have you found for the nature-study corner this month? 

 Doubtless many interesting things ; nuts and leaves and different kinds 

 of seeds. I am sure you like to sit by this table and study these things 

 when your other lessons are learned. 



One line of work that I want you to prepare for this month is a 

 lesson on oaks. You will find that there are two distinct types of oak 

 trees, — those which have leaves with rounded lobes, and those which have 

 leaves with sharp-pointed lobes. The trees that bear these leaves bear 

 also different types of acorns. I wish you would press some oak leaves 

 and place them on white paper on the nature-study table. This will 

 give you an opportunity to observe them closely. 



In studying the oaks, I shall want you to learn the different kinds 

 of acorns. You know, of course, that the acorn is the seed of the oak 



