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 WHICH SHALL IT BE? 



FOR FOUR JOLLY BOYS. 

 First Third 



If we are all to choose and say Sweets are good most any day, 



What trees we'd like to plant to-day, But as for trees, I'm bound to say, 



Seems to me none can be A shag-bark tall is best of all 



Half so good as a Christmas tree! When once the nuts begin to fall ; 



For surely even a baby knows And so a hickory tree I'll set, 



That's where the nicest candy grows. And piles of fun and nuts I'll get. 

 Candy on a Christmas tree. Nuts from a hickory tree, 



That's what pleases me ! That's what pleases me : 



Second Fourth- 



Planted out, 'i would never bear I shall plant an apple tree. 



But, after all, why should we care? That's the best of all for me; 



The richest thing is what we bring And each kind to suit my mind, 



From sugar maples in the spring ; On this one with grafts I'll bind, 



So now I'll set a maple here, Ripe or green the whole year through, 



For feast and frolic every year. Pie or dumpling, bake or stew. 

 Sugar from a maple tree, Every way I like them best, 



That's what pleases me ! And I'll treat the rest ! 



Youth's Companion. 



ESSAYS 



Generally there are to be found in the upper grades pupils especially 

 gifted in writing essays or descriptive articles. Have two or three select 

 topics from the following list, write their articles at home, and when 

 they have been submitted to you select the best to be read as a part of 

 the Arbor Day program: 



1. The Big Trees of California. 



2. Our State Flower The Golden Poppy. 



3. What We Owe to the Trees. 



4. Famous Trees and Little Stories About Them. 



5. The Fruit Trees of California. 



6. Our Most Useful Trees and Their Products. 



7. What the Redwood Told the Oak. 



8. The Life of the Oak Tree Told by Himself. 



9. The History of Arbor Day. 



10. Trees: The Home of the Birds and Their Nests. 



11. The Most Beautiful Tree. 



12. How the Tree Breathes and Grows. 



" Woodman, Spare That Tree." by George P. Morris, should be recited 

 on Arbor Day as part of the regular program. 



Some afternoon before Arbor Day comes around read the "Talking 

 Oak," by Tennyson, to your pupils. You'll find it worth while. 



