THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER 101 



told you in "The Spring of the Year" (see page 42,^ 

 Sections in and iv) you ought to pick out as your own v v 

 field of study. This list will grow all through the sum-* 

 mer and from year to year. I have a list of seventy-' 

 K wild neighbors (not counting the butterflies and 

 insects) that are sharing my fourteen-acre farm with 

 me. How many and what wild things are sharing 

 your dooryard, your park, your favorite haunt or 

 farm with you? Such a list of names, with a blank, 

 place left for each where observations can be en- 

 tered from time to time, would be one of the most 

 > useful and interesting journals you could keep. 



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All through June and into July you should have 

 ! a round of birds' nests that you visit daily, and to 

 which you can take your friends and visitors that 

 is, if you live in or near the country. One will be 

 ! in the big unused chimney of the house, perhaps, 

 and that will be the first ; then one in the barn, or 

 in a bird-house in the yard ; or in the pear- or apple- 

 tree hole ; one in the lilac or honeysuckle bushes, and 

 then down into the orchard, out into the meadow, 

 r on into the woods and back taking in twenty to 

 thirty birds' nests with eggs and young ! Did you 

 ever do it? Can you do it this summer? Don't you 

 think it would be quite as exciting and interesting 

 as going to the circus? I can do it; and if you 

 come out to Mullein Hill in June or July, any on 



