22O Clear Skies and Cloudy. 



and woodcock and rabbits and the like. Farm 

 work's pretty much done up in October, and I 

 don't mind takin' a day off." 



How very rude, thinks the college man ; but 

 stay, where really was the rudeness ? Does it 

 not lie at the door of the townsman who comes 

 to the country thinking that every rustic is a 

 fool ? There is not one word to be said against 

 colleges and the education to be received there, 

 but it must not be supposed that no portion of 

 that same lore can be gathered without the aid 

 of a text-book. Given a desire for knowledge 

 and it can be had by any one at head-quarters, 

 from Mother Earth herself, as well as from class- 

 rooms where it is filtered through a professor's 

 brain. 



An untaught rustic is but another name for 

 an idiot, and unless in charge of a caretaker 

 would soon die of starvation. The knowledge 

 derived by close contact with Nature may not 

 fit us for the extremes of artificiality of the 

 city ; may leave the ear untrained for the opera 

 but not unappreciative of the thrush ; may knot 

 the knuckles, to the destruction of kid gloves, 

 but harden them to effectiveness when brought 



