488 NATURE STUDY. 



enjoy finding leaves and ferns and trees and church spires 

 and fairy palaces and little villages in the frost pictures ! 



" These winter nights against my window-pane 

 Nature with busy pencil draws designs 

 Of ferns and blossoms, and fine spray of pines, 

 Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines, 

 Which she will make when summer comes again." 



T. B. ALDRICH. 



Observe, when possible, the frost on grass, walks, and 

 fences, even if the opportunity to do so does not not come 

 until weeks after the regular frost study. It is only by 

 frequently reviewing and applying what has been learned, 

 that it can be fixed in the minds of the children. If at 

 any time during the winter, trees and other objects become 

 incased in ice, as after a sleety rain, much can be . im- 

 pressed about the beauty of the frost-work. 



" Then he flew to the mountain, and powdered its crest ; 

 He lit on the trees, and their boughs he dressed 

 In diamond beads ; and over the breast 



Of the quivering lake he spread 

 A coat of mail, that it need not fear 

 The downward point of many a spear, 

 That he hung on its margin, far and near, 

 Where a rock could rear its head." 



HANNAH F. GOULD. 



The Work of Jack Frost. Now after the children 

 have observed for themselves they are ready for Jack 

 Frost, whose work they have been studying. Now he is 

 not likely to lead them far astray ; what they have seen 

 will guide their fancy, and direct somewhat their imagina- 

 tion. How much interest he adds to their work ! 



How shall we picture Jack Frost to the little folks? 

 Shall we give them the " Frost Spirit " of Whittier, who 

 blasts the fields, and smites the leaves, the spirit with the 



