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unkempt school ground gives place to a charming campus. 

 Cannot the pupils in every school in which this book is 

 studied get their parents to form such a club, and make 

 their school ground a silent teacher of neatness and 

 beauty ? 



Life in the country will never be as attractive as it 

 ought to be until all the roads are improved. Winter- 

 washed roads, penning young people in their own homes 

 for many months each year and destroying so many of 

 the innocent pleasures of youth, build towns and cities out 

 of the wreck of country homes. Can young people who 

 love their country and their country homes engage in a 

 nobler crusade than a crusade for improved highways ? 



FIG. 216. WASHINGTON'S COUNTRY HOME 



