Literature and Art 



of hoarding up nuts for future use, when the jay 

 carries them off he is really planting them. When 

 the snows come these nuts are lost to him, even if 

 he remembered the hundreds of places where he 

 had dropped them. May not this fact account, in a 

 measure, for the oak and chestnut trees that spring 

 up where a pine forest has been cleared from the 



From " Signs and Seasons,'" by John Burroughs, 



What is said in this selection about the way in which the 

 blue jay stores food? What sometimes happens to the nuts 

 which they hide ? 



Describe the appearance of any bird you have seen here 

 during the winter, and tell what you know about its habits. 



Lesson 1 10 

 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 



WHEN Henry W. Longfellow was a boy he 

 spent many happy days on his grandfather's 

 farm. In the long winter evenings it was one of 

 his greatest pleasures to sit before the great old- 

 fashioned fireplace and listen to the wonderful 

 tales of Indian life which his grandfather told. 



Years went by and the boy became a man. He 

 heard and read many interesting things. He trav- 

 eled in strange lands far from the old farmhouse, 



