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tree swallows: They build in holes in orchard trees, etc.; to be dis- 

 tinguished on the wing from the barn swallows by their white 

 bellies and plain, only slightly forked tails. 

 chippies : the little chipping sparrow, or hair-bird. 

 red-eyed vireos : the most common of the vireos ; see picture of its 

 nest on page 40 of " Winter." 



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cowbird: the miserable brown-headed blackbird that lays its egg or 

 eggs in smaller birds' nests and leaves its young to be fed by the 

 unsuspecting foster-mother. As the young cowbird is larger than 

 the rightful young, it gets all the food and causes them to starve. 



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Thorn Mountain : one of the smaller of the White Mountains .; 

 it overlooks the village of Jackson, N. H. 



CHAPTER XIII 



TO THE TEACHER 



If you have read through " The Fall of the Year " and "Winter " 

 and to this chapter in " The Spring of the Year," you will know 

 that the upshot of these thrice thirteen readings has been to take 

 you and your children into the woods ; you will know that the last 

 paragraph of this last chapter is the aim and purpose and key of all 

 three books. You must go into the woods, you must lead your chil- 

 dren to go, deep and far and frequently. The Three R's first but 

 after them, before dancing, or cooking, or sewing, or manual train- 

 ing, or anything, send your children out into the open, where they 

 belong. The school can give them nothing better than the Three R's, 

 and can only fail in trying to give them more, except it give them 

 the freedom of the fields. Help Nature, the old nurse, to take your 

 children on her knee. 



FOR THE PUPIL 

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Here is the prescription: Think you can swallow it ? Go out and try 

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Golden Chariot : In what Bible story does the Golden Chariot 



descend ? and whom does it carry away ? 



pale-face : an Indian name for the white man. 



