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A Child comes forward and says: 



"The bee is not afraid of me, 

 I know the butterfly; 

 The pretty people in the woods 



Receive me cordially." 



— Emily Dickinson. 



MUSIC 



Class II marches and forms in semicircle. 



A CALENDAR FOR MAY IN NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES 



Adapted from "Nature's Calendar," by Ernest Ingersoll. 



A Leader comes forward and says: 



''The earth is warm again, 



the air is filled with odors, 

 The lanes lined with gay flowers, 



which nod and bend 

 To every passing breeze." 



First Speaker: "The fur-bearing animals put on a new coat now." 



Second Speaker: "Look up in the trees for big nests of dried leaves made 

 by the squirrels. This is the time when the young squirrels are born." 



Third Speaker: "Meadow-mice, too, are making nests on the ground and, 

 if you look sharp, you may find a white-footed mouse snugly housed in an 

 old thrush's nest, which it has roofed over with leaves." 



Fourth Speaker: "Wild-cats, gray foxes, the minks and the weasels, skunks, 

 otters and woodchucks, with beavers, wolves and the bristly porcupine are 

 raising their young in dens and burrows and holes." 



Fifth Speaker: "In April we find many white or pale-colored flowers; but 

 in May there are bright yellow blossoms, — wild indigo, golden mustard, the 

 dandelion, five-finger, the yellow violet and marsh-marigold." 



Sixth Speaker steps forward saying: 



"When wake the violets, Winter dies; 



When sprout the elm-buds. Spring is near; 



When lilacs blossom, Siunmer cries, 



'Bud, little roses! Spring is here.' " 

 — From "Spring Has Come." Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



Seventh Speaker: "The chestnut tree will not shake out its yellow blossoms 

 until simimer but the red maple is already fruiting." (Shows branch of red 

 maple keys.) "in March and April this maple was beautiful with scarlet-yellow 

 blossoms. Its leaves have scarlet stems. In autumn it will be the glory of the 

 northern forests." 



