SEEmG WHAT YOU CAN SEE. 



And now, young friends, having had some 

 words of council together, let us take a number 

 of Jaunts to the country, to see what we can 

 see, to gain healthful exercise, and go to school 

 to Nature, our loving mentor, all at the same 

 time. Not for anything would I have missed 

 the lessons I learned, one day of early spring, 

 in one of my strolls. The farmer was plowing 

 in a level field near the woods, and the robins 

 and purple grackles were following in the 

 moist furrows for worms and larvae. How the 

 robin's breast blushed in the sunshine, shoAving 

 almost crimson above the broAvn, newly turned- 

 up soil ! And the grackles — never have I seen 

 their glossy necks gleam so splendidly as when 

 they caught the rays of the sun and flung them 

 like purple spray to my eye. Looking as wise 

 as Solomon and as stately as Caesar, they walked 

 over the plowed ground, now and then stop- 

 ping to pick up a billsome morsel, and then 

 turning their white eyes to glance inquiringly 

 



