Language Through Nature 



LITTLE squirrel, crack your nuts; 

 Chip your busy tune ; 

 Sound your merry rut-a-tuts- 

 Boys are coming soon ! 

 Hide to-day and pile to-day, 

 Hoard a goodly store; 

 When the boys are gone away 

 You may find no more. 



M. M. D. 



Illustrate this poem by a drawing. 



Lesson 29 



EDWIN LANDSEER 



E picture called "A Piper and Pair of Nut- 

 J- crackers" is a copy of a painting by Edwin 

 Landseer, an English artist. This artist's home 

 was in London, where he was born in 1802. 



When he was a little fellow, only four or five 

 years of age, he delighted in drawing pictures of 

 animals. On holidays he and his two older broth- 

 ers used to leave the noisy, dusty city and^walk 

 out into the green fields that lay beyond London. 

 In one of these fields there was a great oak tree, 

 and in its shade the three boys would sit, while 



