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themselves, but just kept busy getting ready for the early fruit 

 they bore, with visions of happy summer-days and many Play- 

 mates floating before them. 



"Heigh-ho!" yawned one of the little sleepy-head Peaches, the 

 last to wake up. "I do hope it isn't going to be awfully cold, 

 just when we get our best pink blossoms fully out! It's rather 

 discouraging to do our best each year, and always run the risk 

 of getting a bad chill and losing half our crop! People always 

 treat us very well, and give us the finest place in the Garden, so 

 we really like to make a good return when it's possible, and in- 

 deed it often makes us blush, to hear the praise they lavish on 

 our fruit!" 



The South Wind was hovering near, so he caressed them gently 

 and said, "I'll remember that, and try to keep the Frost away from 

 you. You're nice, modest little things, with your blushing 

 fruit, and he has no business to nip you!" All this time, the 

 Apple Orchard was making a tremendous racket, bursting its 

 gorgeous buds and forging ahead to catch up with the Lilacs, 

 and the Birds and the Bees were ftimishing an orchestral accom- 

 panim.ent, and soon the whole country-side was smiling, in beauti- 

 ful array, to welcome Spring. 



NATURE STUDY CLUB OF PITTSBURGH 

 Bulletin No. VII. April 1922. 



THE CIRCUS 

 (By Miss Millie Turner, Teacher of Nature-Study, Belmar School) 

 Come, visit with me this evening 

 When the sun has gone to rest 

 A most remarkable circus 

 'Tis surely the biggest and best. 

 There are dogs and bears and lions 

 And a bull with a fiery eye; 

 A scorpion, swan, and eagle, 

 At the circus in the sky. 

 There is Hydra, the famous serpent, 

 And Draco, the dragon bold, 

 A crab, a ram, and a rabbit 

 And a horse with wings of gold. 

 Orion, the famous hunter 

 And the shy twin boys will be there; 

 King Cepheus, the seven sisters, 

 And a queen in her golden chair. 



