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names of the plants a spy code, until he was convinced of the 

 legitimacy of this nomenclature. An aviator, wherever he happens 

 to alight, at once begins to hunt for insects belonging to a certain 

 family, upon which he is the highest authority. 



There is a free-masonry among nature lovers; they seem to 

 find each other in the cantonments. One of the former assistant 

 teachers in the Cornell Nature-Study classes writes from a southern 

 camp enthusiastically of finding six entomologists and seven 

 naturalists among his fellow machine gunners. 



Thus we may know that a love of nature and a comradeship 

 once established with her, always a spiritual asset, is especially so 

 to the soldier. One boy, soon to attain the age for enrollnemt, 

 said last summer, "I am learning the names of the large stars 

 and the chief constellations and their places in the heavens so 

 that when I am in camp I can find friends I knew at home every 

 time I look up into the skies at night." 



To the naturalist this earth and the heavens above are as a 

 continued story on open pages, and all he has to do is to stop and 

 read another chapter, wherever he may be. Mother Nature 

 keeps in close touch with her child, wherever he may wander, 

 and especially if he is a soldier. 



"And when the way seems long, 

 Or his courage begins to fail, 

 She sings a more wonderful song, 

 Or tells a more wonderful tale." 



"If one is to be happy, he must be in sympathy with common things. He 

 must live in harmony with his environment. One cannot be happy yonder 

 nor to-morrow: he is happy here and now, or never. Our stock of knowledge 

 of common things should be great. Few of us can travel. We must know 

 the things at home. 



Nature-love tends toward naturalness, and toward simplicity of living. It 

 tends country-ward. One word from the fields is worth two from the city. 

 * God made the country. ' " 



L. H. Bailey. 



