vinal] counsel for COUNCILLORS 163 



The Bulletin Board is an important adjunct to the notebook. 

 At the end of a trip a few of the best and most original sketches, 

 stories, poems, snapshots, and collections are exhibifed on the bul- 

 letin board. This bulletin board is not a place for drying or airing 

 ideas. It is a live place because it is newsy. Yesterday's hike 

 differs from today's story and tomorrow's game. The blackfish 

 are playing in the offing, — It is a kind of whale, — ^Watch for any 

 proof? The bluefish are running down the Bay, — Ten fishermen 

 are wanted, on the wharf at 3 p. m. Beach plimis are ripe, — Follow 

 Barbara right after breakfast. The sand pipers are hatching, — • 

 'Nuf sed!' Poultry men sign here for tura to collect the eggs. 

 There is always something going on. It is refreshing. It is a 

 medium for the exchange of ideas and more than one good resolu- 

 tion is made to an ideal (not idol) at this shrine of activity (not 

 sanctum sanctorum). 



Nature-study Forms (Bird, animal, and flower plates). 



A resolution was made at Chequesset that no study of plant or 

 animal life should be made except it be alive and in its native 

 haunt. It is surprising how many of these opportunities are 

 waiting for the one who looks for them. When ordering our 

 supplies for the camp notebook we limit the order to the living 

 things at hand. 



Last June we knew that the barn swallow was feeding her young 

 on the bungalow porch ; that the chickaree had rented the mail- 

 box in the pines; that a chippy, a robin, and a pine warbler were 

 within 30 feet of the dining room door; that Bufo the toad was 

 beneath the steps; that the blue-birds were rearing their second 

 families in the boxes; that red perch would be caught at Gull 

 Pond ; that the squid, and the skate, and the hermit crab would 

 be seen on the shore ; that the swamp azalea would scent the ponds 

 and arethusa dot the meadows. We knew many, many friends 

 that would be at camp and because we knew these friends, we knew 

 just which outlines to order from the publishers. 



Then when simamer came with a rainy day there were those who 

 were anxious to color in the outline of the bam swallows as they 

 fed the young under the eaves of the piazza. And just because 

 Someone was interested in doing this, others became interested. 

 Then so many caught the spirit that it was quite the fashion. 

 And just because it was not a school there were others who did 

 not care or shall we say did not have to "join in". They had found 



