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to the leg of a partridge. So you can see that when 
a bird gets his feet wet, he may really be doing the 
world a service. And it is not likely that he takes cold 
himself. 
Now, I want you children to see how many different 
ways you can recall in which plants scatter abroad their 
little seeds; and later I want you to go out into the 
garden, or into the woods, and see if you cannot dis- 
cover many of the seeds about which you have been 
reading. But better still it would be if you could find 
others of which I have told you nothing. 
I should like you to make a list of the different plants 
which you find in fruit, putting after each name a slight 
description of the way in which it gets rid of its seeds. 
This will not be a stupid task at all if you set your 
mind to it. It will give your walks a new pleasure, 
and it will bring to your school work something of the 
freshness and joy which belong to the woods. 
