Rural School Leaflet. 



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November is none too soon to begin to think about making bird 

 houses. If they are made early and put out of doors, they will be weath- 

 ered sufficiently by the time the birds care to occupy them. We would 

 like some of these bird houses to exhibit at the meeting of the New 

 York State Teachers' Association at Syracuse. 



Preparing the Thanksgiving dinner 



FARM BOYS CLUB 

 Dear Boys: 



There are a good many of you that have never heard of me before, 

 but I hope that it will not be long before we are pretty well acquainted — 

 well enough so that if I should come to your schoolhouse some day after 

 school is out you would like me well enough to take me off butternutting 

 with you. 



Well, boys, what do you think of these fall days, anyway? I love the 

 fall best of all with the wind blowing hard and rattling the leaves by the 

 old rail fence. Then I love the great yellow pumpkins lying thick among 



