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she makes so many more seeds than can possibly grow, 

 thousands on a tree. 



Resin. Read from " Hiawatha's Sailing/' how he built 

 his canoe, and filled its cracks with resin. Tell something 

 of the uses of resin. 



Lumber. Show objects made of pine wood, matches, 

 kindling-wood, boxes and parts of buildings made of 

 pine, closets, doors, and door-frames, windows and 

 window-frames. If children have seen carpenters build- 

 ing a house, talk about the parts made of pine. If pos- 

 sible, visit a carpenter-shop or lumber-yard. 



A Visit to a Lumber Forest. Here is the opportunity to 

 make use of the children's imagination. A mere descrip- 

 tion of a pine forest and lumbering operations will mean 

 little to them. Let them take an imaginary trip to the 

 lumber woods, and tell what they do and see. Put all 

 emphasis on the human element, the lumbermen and their 

 life and work, rather than on the lumber. 



The following, a portion of an outline for the study of 

 the pine by little children, written by Miss Ella Mullins, a 

 member of the writer's class in Nature Study Methods, well 

 illustrates such an imaginary journey. 



A TRIP TO THE PINE WOODS. 



"Let us all go for a sleigh-ride to the lumber woods. While we 

 are getting ready we shall sing, ' Jing-a-ling, the bells do ring.' Are 

 we all ready ? Are our ears covered from mischievous Jack Frost, 

 who likes to pinch them ? But we are each *going to wear two roses, 

 winter roses, so we shall not coyer our faces. 



Off we start, our bells ringing ; and we ride until we come to a 

 woods. We know what to call these trees. 4 How do we know they 

 are pine trees, John ? ' 



Besides our sleigh-bells we hear another sound. Soon we discover 

 what makes it. What do we see ? A man dressed in bright red, or 

 red and blue ; there is one in blue and yellow. Their suits are warm ; 

 for they are made of flannel, like our blankets. The man we first 



