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Everything that should be there will be there, 

 but there will be no suggestion of what you 

 would call " padding." Neat little drawings 

 may be scattered about and short extracts and 

 magazine cuttings will be carefully pasted in, 

 but all will be as practical as a catalogue of 

 farm implements. As for the book itself, this 

 will be bound in some dark, useful color (how 

 you like that phrase, "some dark, useful 

 color 7 '!), that will not show soil and wear. 



If, on the other hand, you are at heart a poet 

 or an artist you will not be able to keep the 

 fact out of such a book as this. Perhaps even 

 the binding will be beautiful. You will choose 

 some glorious, glowing color, some rich, soft 

 cardinal or blue such as the Pre-Raphaelite 

 painters loved, and so make your Nature Note- 

 book all lovely within and without. As for 

 the notes themselves, they will become a diary 

 of the months, a record of the beauty you have 

 seen and reveled in. They will include some- 

 thing beyond structural details, sketches and 

 cuttings from magazines, for the pages will be 

 scattered over with photographs, showing not 

 only the chief beauties of the places you have 



