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down to the water quite near us — the female, probably — as though 

 to satisfy a very natural curiosity as to who and what we were. 

 With great wings outspread she struck the water like a hydroplane, 

 making a very noisy splashing on the surface, for some distance — 

 a demonstration that we could see as well as hear. Turning her 

 swanlike neck for a last scornful look, she took a graceful dive, in 

 her own loon-ey way, and disappeared completely. 



Nature at Teela-Wooket 



Mary A. Stillman 



In the day's order at the Teela-Wooket camps nothing is required 

 except the setting-up drill in the morning. Sports and activities 

 of various kinds are offered, and from these the campers choose 

 such as appeal to them. Of course the riding, swimming and other 

 sports have to have a regular time schedule so that they will not 

 interfere with each other, but the nature work goes on all day long 

 whenever anyone feels so inclined. 



Our bungalow, deUghtfully situated upon a hillside which 

 brings the windows on a level with the bird-filled tree tops has been 

 set aside for nature headquarters. Half of this is the sleeping 

 room of the Nature Councilors, and the other half is the nature 

 workrooms. Here are books, pictures, and charts for reference; 

 also an herbariimi, collections of birds' nests, insects, cocoons, 

 stones, etc. Here the girls bring their flowers, ferns and leaves, 

 and also living specimens which they keep for awhile, — tadpoles, 

 toads, salamanders, snakes, caterpillars, grasshoppers and helpless 

 birds which have fallen out of nests. 



These treasures often begin to come before the councilors are 

 dressed, and the procession continues all day until just before taps. 

 There are often from forty to sixty voluntary pupils a day, and 

 when too many come at once to allow of individual instruction 

 they divide into groups and teach each other. The interest in 

 nature is not confined to the girls, but includes several councilors, 

 bookkeepers, waitresses and others connected with the camp. 

 Even the riding master has contributed maiden hair ferns, and the 

 village minister a modest sphynx moth ! 



Besides the identification of specimens the work includes leaf- 

 printing, the pressing of ferns and flowers, some Girl Scout nature 

 instruction, and the coloring of Kellogg's bird and animal outlines. 



