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I wonder what you will do with these holiday 
hours? 
Of course, you will play a great deal; at least, I 
hope you will, for we need play almost as much as we 
need work. But one does not play every minute, even 
in the holidays. I hope that all of you will spend a 
part of your holidays in trying to be a little useful to 
your mothers. 
But even then there will be some time left for other 
things, —things that are not work, and that are not 
exactly play, yet that are a little of each, and so per- 
haps better than either play or work alone. 
Among these “other things” I hope “learning to 
see’”’ will find its place. I wish that every child who 
reads this book would make a resolution that during 
these coming holiday weeks he will “learn to see.” 
There are many different ways of doing this. The 
children in the city can learn this great lesson as well 
as those who live in the country. There is much to be 
seen in the city besides people and houses, and horses 
and wagons. There are the clouds of the sky by day, 
and its stars by night. There are the trees am=ehe 
squares, the birds and flowers in the parks, and much 
besides. 
The children who live by the sea do not have the 
great forest trees that grow among the mountains; but 
for this loss they can comfort themselves by the beauti- 
ful rose mallows (see the picture at the head of this 
chapter) that grow in the marsh, by the sea pinks along 
the creek, by the pretty shells and seaweeds on the 
beach. 
