THINGS TO SEE THIS SPRING 31 



1 covered with shocks of ripened corn, shocks that 

 re pitched up and down its long rows of corn-butts 



like a vast village of Indian tepees, each tepee full 



of golden corn. 



XI 



You should see, hanging from a hole in some old 

 apple tree, a long thin snake-skin ! It is the latch- 

 string of the great crested fly- 

 catcher. Now why does this bird 

 always use a snake-skin in his 

 >nest? and why does he usually 

 leave it hanging loose outside 

 khe hole ? Questions, these, for 

 )you to think about. And if you 

 ;? will look sharp, you will see in 

 jven the commonest things ques- 

 tions enough to keep you think- 

 ing as long as you live. 



XII 



You should see a dandelion. 

 A dandelion ? Yes, a dandelion, 

 " fringing the dusty road with harmless gold." But 

 ;hat almost requires four eyes two to see the dan- 

 .delion and two more to see the gold the two eyes 

 in your head, and the two in your imagination. Do 

 you really know how to see anything? Most persons 

 ave eyes, but only a few really see. This is because 

 .they cannot look hard and steadily at anything. Th 



