THE CORN LADY 25 



My intermediate reading class likes the 

 poem: 



THE BOY WITH THE HOE 



'Say, how do you hoe your row, young chap, 

 Say, how do you hoe your row? 



Do you hoe it fair, 



Do you hoe it square, 



Do you hoe it the best you know? 

 Do you cut the weeds as you ought to do 

 And leave what's worth while there? 



The harvest you garner depends on you, 



Are you working it on the square?" 



"Are you killing the noxious weeds, young chap. 

 Are you making it straight and clean? 



Are you going straight 



At a hustling gait, 



Do you scatter all that's mean? 

 Do you laugh and sing and whistle shrill 

 And dance a step or two? 



The road you hoe leads up a hill ; 



The harvest is up to you." 



I have made some "Farm Charts" for my 

 little people and I'll send you some pictures 

 of them. Of course, one cannot do many 

 things for children until she knows them, 

 but I believe they are already learning to 

 love the farm. There are so many little 

 ways in which to interest the children in the 



