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subject matter too was uii-school-like. Birds, flowers, and peb- 

 bles had been our playthings and companions in the fields from 

 childhood, but in the school-room never. Any boy caught with 

 them on his person was in disgrace. Our new master threw 

 open the door and invited us to come out and know these same 

 playmates of our childhood better, and to know them not as 

 someone else had seen them, not as he saw them, but just as they 

 came from God's hand. We went and we looked, and little 

 though we saw, some of us were so entranced with the seeing 

 that we are looking still. Others more mindful of duties else- 

 where, have gone to the school-room or the home, but I ven- 

 ture not one has forgotten what he learned from Professor Her- 

 rick, to see for himself and think for himself and to love and try 

 to iniderstand God's world." 



A. D. Cole. 



