26 Nature in Recreation 



c. Odors. Best tested in midsummer when pungent little annuals are 

 abundant. Test crushed leaves, broken twigs, insects, mushrooms, leaf mold, 

 everything with an odor, good or bad. 



d. Sounds and sound making devices: a more subtle project for older 

 or more experienced girls. Everything from a cricket or frog to raindrops 

 or wind. 



e. Tastes in moderation and with due regard to any poisonous species 

 in your locality. 



1. Pitfalls for the Unwary as spider webs and doodlebug traps. 



2. Accidents or Untimely Ends. Even a rock split by a tree root, a tree cut 

 down by man or blown over by the wind, a stream dammed by a landslide, 

 a leaf partly eaten by an insect, a fern or flowers stepped on by a careless 

 foot. 



3. Discards or Remnants. Cast off skins of insects and snakes, a fallen 

 leaf, a lost feather. 



4. Locomotors. Wings, legs, fins, scales of snakes. 



5. Transportation. What is carried by whom? 



6. Movements, other than locomotors and transportation such as 

 mechanical movements in plants and muscular movements in animals. 

 What's moving? 



7. Planters of Seeds. Birds, mammals, insects. 



8. Traces, or "sign" or traces. 



9. Menus, table manners and table scraps. 



10. Patterns or designs, as feathers radiate or dot or triangle or wave. 



11. Signs of the Times. What do you see that is evidence that this is this 

 season and no other? 



12. Homes, home-making and home-makers. Spiders, birds, moles, 

 gophers, mice, and so on. 



13. S^ins, or outer surfaces from rock surfaces to bark of trees; feathers, 

 fur, scales, leaf surfaces. 



14. Curiosities Such as a plant that has pushed up through a dead leaf 

 and carried the leaf up with it. 



15. Oddities untypical growth, such as a four-leaved clover or oxalis or 

 a two-tailed lizard. 



1 6. Miniatures or Inchers tiny lovely things less than an inch tall, or 

 queer and interesting little things like the fairy golf -club fruiting bodies on 

 moss or the wee umbrellas on liverworts or seeds with a parachute. 



17. Remnants of Yester-year. Old birds' nests, dead leaves, ghosts of 

 flowers, fallen seeds. 



