168 NATURE STUDY LESSONS FOR PRIMARY GRADES 



grouped together, also those that wear dresses of 

 red, bronze, brown, red and yellow, etc. Do all 

 trees that send off their leaves dress them beauti- 

 fully before they go ? What trees have leaves that 

 shrivel up when the frosts come ? 



You have had a story about a little leaf that worried 

 a great deal [" The Anxious Leaf," by Henry Ward 

 : About what did it worry ? ( ! Fpr fear the 

 off and throw it down on the ground 

 to die.) Is the wind doing that with any leaves 

 now ? Do they fall easily ? Could the wind always 

 pull the leaves off so eafify? (No, not in the spring 

 and summer.) You may shake the little branch that 



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 I brought in. (The leaves come fluttering down.) 



Let us see if we can find out why the leaves fall 

 sd;esil$?:*iow. Why is it, do you think? ("They 

 afge&>:>$6 bagi<on^bfi < f They are loose."q "i$Q*n- 

 thing is grcwjivg, up ; between the leaf and the 

 branch, and the leaf can't reach around it.") 

 JJook clbsfely at that something, What is it? (A 

 tinyo&udf) -cWiE^it'/all off ? Why *Jo. you think it 

 will hoti--;^Itihrldsoonb so tighttys) IO Btef'^bu < think 



clasped it and kept iti warm, i ra^ad , fdry^ a-nd QUt 

 the >sight <of-hi!igs- / /wfh-ieh might eat auch a 



