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line they would like to bring and at first it was rather amusing the 

 things I received. 



We had no good place for storing them so were obliged to have 

 the things on the window-sills and in boxes, but they kept increasing 

 slowly at first until a little enthusiasm was aroused by seeing 

 others working. 



After the specimens were pressed and dried we took nearly all 

 of one afternoon getting them mounted. 



At Thanksgiving time we had a social and the children gave a 

 short program after which we had an auction sale of the vegetables 

 donated for the "Thanksgiving comer" and cleared $12.08 and 

 with what the state aided us we added 52 books to the library, 

 some of which were to aid us in our study of nature. 



In the spring, as the school grounds were needed for playgrounds 

 and also were too shady for gardening, I tried to rent a piece of 

 ground from a field just across the road from the schoolyard for the 

 school garden. The neighbor would not rent it to me but gave us 

 the use of a corner in the field, while another gave us a load of 

 fertilizer and we planted potatoes, com, beans, beets, salsify, etc. 



During the noon hours we made trips into the neighboring fields 

 and Arbor Day, after we had finished raking the yard and the 

 refuse was burned, we took our dinner and went to the woods 

 returning to the school house about three o'clock with flowers, 

 ferns, mosses, etc. We put some of the things in press, set out 

 some ferns then did a little more of the mounting work before 

 returning home. 



At the close of the spring term we had an ice-cream social. 

 One of the pupils took his father's horse and buggy one night after 

 school and we canvassed the district for eggs, milk, sugar and some 

 gave us mone}^ so we realized from it twenty-one dollars the 

 proceeds of which we used to purchase a nature-study cabinet for 

 our exhibits. 



During the summer vacation there was scarcely a week passed 

 that there was not something brought to my home, which was just 

 out of the district, that the pupils thought would add to the collec- 

 tion. 



They had done so nicely that I had decided to take the things 

 to the coimty fair. One afternoon the week before the fair opened 

 I invited the larger children to my home to help prepare the work 

 that had been collected and after working for a time we had a little 



