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boxes for indoor and outdoor gardens, the minia- 

 ture hot-house with roof of window-frame and 

 shingles of glass, the fernery, and plant presses. 



For insects, there are the net, the breeding- 

 cages in great variety of designs, the tanks for 

 aquatic insects, amphibia, and fish. There are 

 the vivaria for the turtles or snakes. And speak- 

 ing of snakes reminds me that the same vivaria 

 covered with wire netting may have the bottom 

 turfed over and used as a cage, in which to 

 watch grasshoppers shed their coats from time 

 to time. 



As we go higher in animal life, there is even 

 greater scope for the manual training correlation, 

 and that is in the development of the artistic 

 talent. What scope is here given for the design- 

 ing and building of bird-houses ! What a variety 

 of grades and styles of workmanship are possible ! 

 For our four-footed animals we need a cage, one 

 box-like section lined with sheet-tin, the other an 

 open framework on which wire netting is neatly 

 tacked. Let the boys make these. 



Would you develop originality ? Then increase 

 ingenuity, quicken powers of observation, correlate 

 manual training with nature-study interests and 

 see how the whole child-life wakes up. You wake 



