502 NATURE STUDY. 



LESSON IV. THE USES OF SNOW. HOW SNOW PROTECTS. 



Step I. How snow keeps man warm. 



Review the story of the snow house in which Agoonac 

 lived. Have children tell or tell them how people pile the 

 snow around their houses to keep them warm. Tell how 

 people have kept warm for days buried under deep snow. 

 Compare snow with cotton in " comfortables." 



Step II. How snow keeps animals warm. 



Read the following, and picture the rabbit burrowing 

 under the snow : 



" The woods and fields are buried deep 



Under the snow ; 

 The hedges lie in a tangled heap 



Under the snow ; 



And the little gray rabbits under them creep, 

 While the twittering sparrows cunningly peep 

 From the sheltering briars, and cosily sleep 

 Under the snow." 



JOHN H. BONNER. 



Step III. How snow keeps the plants warm. 



Perhaps some of the children can tell how their fathers 

 bury vegetables to keep them through the winter. They 

 should certainly be able to understand by this time, and be 

 ready to tell, that snow is the cover that ,Mother Nature 

 sends to protect her plants, and particularly her plant 

 babies. Eecall how Mother Nature sends the leaves in the 

 fall to cover seeds and buds, and hosts of animals, and how, 

 a little later, she often spreads over them her snow mantle. 



Literature. 



PUTTING THE WORLD TO BED. 



" The little snow people are hurrying down 



From their home in the clouds overhead ; 

 They are working as hard as ever they can, 

 Putting the world to bed. 



