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own city and take your pupils over it on a tramp, Watching for 

 glimpses of animal and bird life and for the sight of Nature's face 

 the sky, the wind, the sunshine, trees, grass, flowers, etc. Make the 

 most of your city chance for nature-study. It is an important matter. 



FOR THE PUPIL 



T wharf, long one of the busiest fish wharves in the world, per- 

 haps the busiest, is, as I write, on the point of being abandoned 

 by the fish-dealers of Boston, who are to occupy a huge new pier 

 at South Boston, built by the State at a cost of about a million 

 dollars. Franklin Field is a great athletic field adjoining Franklin 

 Park in the southern part of Boston. 



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list of saints: these immortal names are carved in various places 

 on the outer walls of the Public Library. 

 cranium : the head, or rather the skull. 



herring gull : Larus argentatus, one of the largest and common- 

 est of the harbor birds, and very much like the Western gull of 

 Three-Arch Rocks. It is a pearl-gray and pure white creature 

 with black on the wings. The immature birds are a brownish gray 

 and look like an entirely different species for the first year. 



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Boston, Baltimore, etc. : Make a study of your city parks and the 

 spots of green and the open spaces where the wild things may be 

 found. Go to the Public Library and ask for the books that treat 

 of the wild life of your city : " Wild Birds in City Parks," by 

 Walter, will be such a book for Chicago ; Birds in the Bush," 

 by Torrey, and " Birds of the Boston Public Garden," by Wright, 

 for Boston. 



Charles River Basin : the wide fresh-water part of Charles River 

 just above the dam and near Beacon and Charles Streets. 

 Scup : another name is porgie, porgy, scuppaug. 

 Squid: (Ommastrephes illecebrosus), a cephalopod, or cuttlefish, 

 used for bait along the Atlantic coast. 



The " cuttle-bone " in canaries' cages is taken from the genus 

 Sepia. 



Squeteague : pronounced skwe-teg' ; also called weak fish and sea- 

 trout. 



