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Step III. Literature. " The Wayside Inn An Apple 



Tree." 



" I halted at a pleasant inn, 



As I my way was wending ; 

 A golden apple was the sign 

 From knotty bough depending. 



Mine host it was an apple tree 



He smilingly received me, 

 And spread his choicest, sweetest fruit, 



To strengthen and relieve me. 



Full many a little feathered guest 



Came through his branches springing ; 



They hopped and flew from spray to spray, 

 Their notes of gladness singing. 



Beneath his shade I laid me down, 



And slumber sweet possessed me ; 

 The soft wind blowing through the leaves 



With whispers low caressed me. 



And when I rose, and would have paid 



My host, so open-hearted, 

 He only shook his lofty head ; 



I blessed him and departed." 

 From the German. From Skinner's Arbor Day Manual. 



LESSON V. THE THANKSGIVING THOUGHT. 



Step I. Review. How the Apple was Made. 



What the Tree has done. 

 What Nature has done. 

 What Man has done. 



Step II. What God has done. 



Has given sunshine and rain and a good season. With- 

 out these the apple crop fails. The tree and man can do 

 nothing alone. 



Directs and controls all. 



