Language Through Nature 



great artist. He has painted many beautiful pic- 

 tures, and in some of them you can see the morn- 

 ing sunshine on the green hills, or the long purple 

 shadows upon the freshly fallen snow, or the gleam 

 of silvery moonlight over the quiet earth, just as he 

 saw them when a little boy in Norway years ago. 



Among the most beautiful pictures which he 

 has painted is the one you have been studying. 

 In it you can see a little Norwegian farmhouse 

 nestling in a quiet valley. Perhaps it was in just 

 such a home as this that Svend Svendsen lived 

 when a boy. Perhaps these are some of the white 

 birches which grew near his home, and which he 

 remembered and put into this picture. 



Mr. Svendsen has left Norway and now lives in 

 America, but his pictures tell us that he still loves 

 his Norwegian home. 



Tell this story in your own words. 



Oh, now hurrah for sleds and skates ! 

 A polar expedition waits 

 When school is done each day for me, 

 Off for the ice-bound arctic sea. 



From " Song for Winter" by Frank Dempster Sherman. 



