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dog barks, and the boys know that Bowser has 

 safely treed a squirrel. Before you have had 

 time to collect your thoughts a lustj^ farm boy, 

 perched on a creaking wain, wiiooping loudly to 

 his team, goes rattling by. Stay a week and 

 finish your composition, and see how fast your 

 children are securing disjointed fractions of an 

 education. A half- hour of continuous, quiet, in- 

 tensified study at home is worth more than a day 

 in many a school -room where little muddy driblets 

 of knowledge are being doled out to the children. 



You may say that you have no time to teach 

 children. Business is too pressing, and you are 

 already overworked. You should have thought 

 of that sooner, and been wholly selfish and saved 

 the money and time you spent to persuade that 

 beautiful maiden to join you and help perform 

 the duties and functions of life. 



You will certainly agree that home education 

 is the best, the ideal education. For a child, an 

 hour or two of study and recreation a day, an 

 equal time employed in useful work, and the 

 rest of the day spent in picking up fun and 

 facts, both of which may be found in abundance 

 on the old farm, is the natural way to secure a 

 broad primary foundation, upon which to rest a 

 liberal education. 



After the child has reached tiic iige of ten 

 or twelve and has had careful home training, 



