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entire year. When we stop to think how many places they have passed through 

 which we have never visited, how many things they have seen, heard, touched 

 and tasted which we know nothing about, and how many things they do 

 which we cannot do, we shall feel a great wonder about the beautiful world, 

 of which the poets never tire of singing to us, — the world of life and joy. 



As we start out to greet the birds and trees and flowers, the animals, and 

 everything which nature has to show us, let us not forget the wise instruc- 

 tion of Dr. William Turner, an old English physician, chaplain, and natural- 

 ist who, in the dedication of his history of the principal birds noticed by 

 Pliny and Aristotle, published in 1544, wrote: "No one demands sight in the 

 feet, hearing in the legs, smell (or taste) in the hands, or smell in the arms; 

 but all these things are necessary in the head. Inasmuch, therefore, as so many 

 senses are requisite in the head, which is set over one body alone, how 

 many senses and what a wealth of wisdom and learning are demanded from 

 that head . . .?" 



So let us keep our ears open as well as our eyes, our noses ready to catch 

 the faintest odor, our tongues quick to taste, and our hands to feel, while the 

 head directs all, including the heels, to paraphrase an old adage. — A. H. W. 



"He filled their listening ears with wondrous things." 



SUGGESTIONS 



1. Address Forest Service, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, asking for Circular 96, 

 leaflet on Arbor Day, prepared by Gifford Pinchot. 



2. Plant trees and shrubs, and plant them right, as a forester would, first learning 

 which kinds of trees and shrubs are most needed in and best suited to your locality. 



3. Are there any maple keys about your neighborhood, and, if so, what are they 

 doing now? 



4. Did you ever see a mud- wasp make a vase of clay? 



5. Where do the bees go for food at this season? 



6. Look at the ragweed, to see what birds find its seeds to their liking as it matures. 



7. Can you hunt for a fairy shrimp? Where? Why is it called fairy? 



8. How many frogs and toads do you know by sound and by sight? 



9. How does a squirrel strip a pine-cone to get at the seeds? 



10. Can you name all the trees and shrubs about your home and school? 



11. Learn the meaning of egg, larva, pupa, and imago, as applied to insects. 



12. How many kinds of insects do you know? 



References: Nature's Craftsmen, by H. C. McCook; Nature-Study and Life, by 

 C. F. Hodge; Our Native Trees, by H. L. Keeler; The Birds' Calendar, by H. E. Park- 

 hurst; The Migratory Movements of Birds in Relation to the Weather, by W. W. 

 Cooke (See Yearbook of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture for 1910); The Legend of the Blue 

 Flower, by F. H. Burnett; Bird and Arbor Day Program, Bird-Lore, Vol. XIII, No. 2; 

 Handbook of Nature-Study, by A. B. Comstock. 



