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leap out of the fine soil directly the grip of zero is 

 loosened, and earth awakes with redoubled energy from 

 the enslavement of sleep to the liberty of service. 



Within the schools the quiet cheerful nuns preside 

 over the education and well-being of the girl- 

 children, and school and craft masters train the 

 boys ; so that the girls leave school equipped with 

 an excellent education and domestic training, and 

 the boys are taught a useful trade or craft, besides 

 learning by doing in the garden and farm attached 

 to the schools, in order that they may be able to 

 take possession of the opportunities which civilization 

 brought to the wonderful treasure-land of their 

 fathers. That neither education nor training can 

 wean them altogether from the sway of the spirit 

 of Hiawatha, who can wonder or deplore ? As you 

 walk through the bright and sunny dormitories it 

 seems the best possible arrangement that so many 

 dear small bodies should be tucked safely and snugly 

 into so many snow-white beds ; but when you get 

 back to the lake-shore trail again and watch the 

 evening sky as it makes its rose and opal offering to 

 the lake, when you sniff the pungent odour of prairie 

 herbs, the heart-warming smell of the camp-fires 

 which mark the freeman's tent, when you breathe in 

 and breathe out the air of liberty, and the sway of 

 the fascination of life in the open tugs at the heart- 

 strings, you know that the children of Hiawatha pay 

 the price for those opportunities of civilization. 



Not that the gentle art of pleasure is neglected 

 in the general preparation for life. A glance 

 through the composition books proves the culture 

 of the imagination to be proceeding on fertile soil, 

 and signs of the love of joy are in evidence in the 



