Lessons in the School-yard. 149 



When they crawl out at night, they pull small things 

 down into their holes. The worms are wise little fellows, 

 for they always pull the small end into the hole first. We 

 should love worms, for they are our friends. There are many 

 millions of them in the ground. By boring the ground they 

 keep it loose. It is a sort of ploughing that they give the 

 ground. But when they pull leaves into their holes, they 

 help to enrich the ground. So you see that they are the 

 friends of man. 



Suppose you try to write a story, What a Worm Said. 



FIG. 37. GARDEN-SLUGS. 

 a, Stalked eyes ; , feelers. 



THE GARDEN-SLUG. 



We went out the other day, and down in the back yard 

 we turned over a large flat stone. How many of you can 

 remember what we found under it ? Jessie, you may tell 

 what we saw under the stone. " I saw big black crickets." 

 That is right, but did you not see anything else ? "I saw 

 ants." 



Note to Teacher. Accustom the children to remember 

 all they saw there. Such a list will doubtless include angle- 

 worms, ants' eggs, sow-bugs, slugs, snails, thousand-legged 

 and hundred-legged " worms," crickets, spiders, and many 

 other things. 



