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all covered with shocks of ripened corn, shocks that 

 are pitched up and down its long rows of corn-butts 

 like a vast village of Indian tepees, each tepee full 



of golden corn. 



XI 



You should see, hanging from a hole in some old 

 apple tree, a long thin snake-skin ! It is the latch- 

 string of the great crested fly- 

 catcher. Now why does this bird 

 always use a snake-skin in his 

 nest? and why does he usually 

 leave it hanging loose outside 

 the hole ? Questions, these, for 

 you to think about. And if you 

 will look sharp, you will see in 

 even the commonest things ques- 

 tions enough to keep you think- 

 ing as long as you live. 



XII 



You should see a dandelion. 

 A dandelion ? Yes, a dandelion, 

 "fringing the dusty road with harmless gold." But 

 that almost requires four eyes two to see the dan- 

 delion and two more to see the gold the two eyes 

 in your head, and the two in your imagination. Do 

 you really know how to see anything ? Most persons 

 have eyes, but only a few really see. This is because 

 they cannot look hard and steadily at anything. The 



