146 NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS 



/. W. P. Jenks: for many years head of Pierce Academy, 

 Middleboro, and later Professor of Agricultural Zoology in Brown 

 University. 



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Contributions: used in place of the whole name: Go yourself into 

 the public library and read this and look at the four large volumes. 



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spatter-docks: yellow pond-lily (Nuphar advena). 



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dinosaurian : one of the fossil reptile monsters of the Mesozoic, 

 or " middle," period of the earth's history, before the age of man. 



CHAPTER XII 



TO THE TEACHER 



In this story I have tried to settle the difficult question of debit 

 and credit between me and the out-of-doors. Shall we exterminate 

 the red squirrels, the hawks, owls, etc., is a question that is not so 

 easily answered as one might think. The fact is we do not want to 

 exterminate any of our native forms of life we need them all, 

 and owe them more, each of them, for the good they do us, than they 

 owe us for the little harm they may do us. Read this over with the 

 children with its moral and economic lesson in view. Send to the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, New York City, for their 

 free leaflets upon this matter. The Pennsylvania Department of Agri- 

 culture, Harrisburg, Pa., has a bulletin upon this same subject which 

 will be sent free upon application. 



FOR THE PUPIL 

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June-bug : the very common brown beetle whose big white grubs 

 you dig up under the sod and in composts. 



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rose-breasted grosbeak : one of the most beautiful of our birds, 

 and a lovely singer. 



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Chickaree : the common name of the red squirrel. The red squir- 

 rel does not need to be destroyed. 



