Domestic Animals 119 



in the Poulsson "Finger Plays" very entertaining, 

 and they illustrated it on the blackboard in a very 

 realistic manner. 



For seat work they made gates for the sty out of 

 slats, folded troughs of paper, and made buckets, 

 kettles, pails, vegetables, and pigs of clay. 



The use of pigs was discussed, and the children 

 learned that this animal differed from the others 

 they had studied in that it is raised as an article of 

 food only; though Miss Clare told them she had 

 read of one man who had a pig that he trained to 

 hunt as a dog does. This pig could smell the game 

 a long way off, and when it did smell it, it would 

 stand quite still and try to hold its little curly tail 

 out straight, as a dog does. 



The blackboard list read: 



BODY 



Size. 

 Shape. 



LEGS 



Feet. 

 Hoofs. 



