Rural School Leaflet. 



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Note. — The following seeds can be obtained in penny packets from 

 James Vicks' Sons, 189 Main Street East, Rochester, N. Y. : 



Asters 



Alyssum 



Bachelor's Button 

 Calliopsis 

 Candytuft 

 Dianthus 



Beans 

 Beets 



Carrots 



Flower Seeds 



'Marigold 

 Mignonette 

 Morning Glory 

 Nasturtium, Climbing 

 Petunia 



Vegetable Seeds 



Lettuce 



Onions 



Radish 



Phlox 

 Poppy 

 Scabiosa 

 Sweet Peas 

 Zinnia 



Spinach 

 Sweet Corn 



Postage two cents for the first 12 packets and one cent for each addi- 

 tional 12 packets. Large orders will go cheaper by express, charges to 

 be paid by purchaser. 



THE SCREECH OWL 

 Arthur A. Allen 



It was one of those warm evenings tliat we sometimes get about the 

 middle of March. Old Winter had thrown oft" his snowy garments and 

 was resting awhile to catch his bre;^th 

 for one last effort. Spring, besting 

 him for the moment, was filling the 

 aitmosphere with a warm south breeze. 

 We were sitting on the porch listen- 

 ing to the many voices of spring that 

 were making the air resonant. The 

 short shrill .notes of the peepers, the 

 never-ceasing, tremulous whistle of the 

 toads, and the occasional low croak j^^^ Saw-whct Owl lacks the car infts 

 of the leopard frogs told us of Spring's 



latest victory in the nearby ponds. Suddenly, from somewhere over 

 head, there came another note, quite different from that of the frogs 

 and toads, and yet so much a part of the night, that had we not been 

 listening we might have missed it. A long, low, Cjuerulous whistle it 

 was, with perhaps just a tinge of melancholy. Our little Screech Owl 

 had begun liis nightly rounds. 



Off and on, all winter long we had heard him call, and now that spring 

 was approaching his notes had become more and more frequent. Tie 

 load grown so bold that he even came and sat on a limb clo.se to the 

 veranda and answered us as we imitated his call. His feathers all 



