CORNELL 



Rural School Leaflet 



(FOR BOYS AND GIRLS) 



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. 



ITHACA, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1908 



No. 3 



THE NAMES OF THE WINDS 

 By Wilford M. Wilson 



"The winds go murmuring by at dusk 

 And call you up at dawn, 

 To walk through the fairies' handkerchiefs 

 And startle a sleeping fawn." — 



— Sara Hamilton Birchall. 



"Learn to love the wind. It is a voice that never 

 sings false. You are never small when you listen 

 to it." — Charles Skimier. 



' N November and December we often hear the 

 wind blowing about the old schoolhouse; 

 the windows rattle and the doors creak. Let 

 us listen some day and we shall hear rare, wild 

 music that may bring messages from storm 

 kings and sea kings. Again we shall hear high 

 sweet notes, and we shall wish we had an 

 Aeolian harp, such as the people of the olden 

 time made for the wind to play on. 



We want to enjoy the winds this winter 

 • and also to learn something about them. 

 As you know, the winds are named for the 

 directions from which they come. The names of the eight principal winds 

 are north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, and north- 

 west. Ask your teacher to point out these eight directions, or better 

 still go into the schoolyard and face the north, south, east, and west. 



An east wind blows from the east toward the west, and a southwest 

 wind from the southwest toward the northeast. Each wind usually 

 brings with it a certain kind of weather. A north wind brings cold 



