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voices with which we live are known not to one 

 in ten thousand. To be able to distinguish the 

 notes of the different birds is one of the choicest 

 resources in life, and it should be one of the 

 first results of a good education. It is but a 

 step from this to the other small voices, — of the 

 insects, the frogs and toads, the mice, the domes- 

 tic animals, the flow of quiet waters, and the 

 noises of the little winds. It is a great thing 

 when one learns how to listen. At least once, 

 every young person should sleep far out in the 

 open, preferably in a wood or the margin of a 

 w^ood, that he may know the spirit and the voices 

 of the night and thereafter be free and unafraid. 



Similar remarks may be made of the odors, 

 for the world breathes a multitude of fragrances 

 of which most persons are w^holly unaware. 

 Usually only the strong smells are known to us, 

 and we merely divide them into two classes, — 

 those that we like and those that we do not like. 



All the senses should be so trained and ad- 

 justed that all our world becomes alive to us. 

 Then we are really sensitive. 



One of the first things that a child should 



