88 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



There are charactei revelations in out-door lessons. • 'You never 

 know your children until you have been outdoors together." 

 The quiet boy of the classroora m.ay be most unmanageable while 

 the inattentive and uninterested in arithm.etic or grammar some- 

 times turns out to be m.ost dependable in observation on a bird hunt . 

 Why hasn't the outdoor boy a place in the schem.e of the present 

 day school ? The schools should take a lesson from the success of 

 the Scout and Cam.pfire m.ovem.ents that have done such fine 

 pioneer work in out -door teaching. 



"Wee Wild Rose" 



Millie Ruth Turner 

 Butler, Penna. 



Wee wild rose by the old gate gray, 

 I hear you calling m^e today, 

 I see your leaves gleam green and cool 

 Far from, the heat of a city school. 

 Your pale pink petals are open wide, 

 The clover bloom.s on every side, 

 A bee flies by on lingering wing; 

 He loves you too, my wee wild thing. 



Wee wild rose by the old gate gray, 



I hear the breeze with your leaflets play 



As I watch the children whose earnest eyes 



Study the m.ap where Egypt lies. 



They cannot tell why it is I smile. 



As we follow the flow of the River Nile; 



Nor do they know that you haunt me so 



As we search for the cities of long ago. 



Wee wild rose by the old gate gray, 

 I would we might lay the lesson away 

 For the sake of children who never see 

 Rose or clover, bird or bee; 

 Close our books in an idle row. 

 And over the hills to the clovei go, 

 Leave the map where the White Nile flows. 

 And follow the bee to the wee wild rose. 



