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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



A JOLLY LOT OF YOUNGSTERS IN ONE OF THE LARGEST TEXTS. 



hoe and pull the weeds and watch the 

 fruition of their labor. Here is their 

 tool house, as a rendezvous. Fre- 

 quently the boys sleep in their tents 

 spread in the park or in the fields. 



The professor has not forgotten that 

 all work and no play makes Jack a 

 dull boy and that it does not mean even 

 the best work. The work in the fields 

 is therefore interspersed with open air 



talks on educational and "live" topics, 

 when the boys live in tents and from 

 time to time move from farmhouse to 

 farmhouse, and with occasional excur- 

 sions to scenes of popular interest. 



Once, last summer, "Park Life" 

 boys visited the Government Fish 

 Hatcheries at Spring Brook, Iowa. 

 Here they studied the living fishes in 

 the shallow tanks spread out before 



LISTENING TO A LECTURE ON CORN. 



