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greater as the children grow older. Perhaps you know 
that if you stop using any part of your body, that part 
soon begins to lose its power of doing the things it was 
meant to do. 
If you should not use your legs for a long time, they 
would grow so weak that they could hardly carry you. 
It would be much as if you had no legs, or at least as 
if you had legs that could not do the work they were 
meant to do. 
If you stopped using your hands, you would find 
your fingers growing stiffer and stiffer, so that at last 
they could not take a good hold of things. 
And if your eyes are not used for seeing clearly the 
things before them, they will grow less and less able to 
see Clearly. 
A. COUNTRY. ROAD 
HAVE taken a walk along a country road which 
was bright with flowers of many kinds, where lovely- 
colored butterflies and buzzing bees were hard at work 
hunting for sweet stuff, where birds were singing in the 
trees as they watched their nests, where a rabbit would 
dart from the bushes close by, and a squirrel would scold 
at me from overhead, — where, in short, there was so 
much to look at and delight in, that I could hardly make 
up my mind to keep on to my journey’s end, instead of 
stopping to see if I knew the names of all the flowers, 
to admire the queer, bright-colored little patterns on the 
wing of the butterfiy which was resting on a neighbor- 
