116 NATURE STUDY 



LITERATURE 



Myths and Stories: 



Death of Baldur (Mistletoe). 



Law of the Wood (Spruce), Parables from Nature, Mrs. Gatty. 



The Fir Tree, Andersen. 



The Last Dream of the Old Oak, Andersen. 



The Discontented Pine Tree, Marah Pratt's Fairy Land of Flowers 



Easy Poems : 



Christmas Eve, Mrs. Dodge's When Life is Young. 

 Hemlock Tree (first verse), Longfellow. 



More Difficult Poems : 



Pine Needles, ^ 



Little Pine Tree, \ ^ • , -kt . • tt- 

 ,^ ,, \ Loveioy's Nature m Verse. 



Holly, j 



Three Trees, J 



Under the Holly Boughs, Eric Mackay. 



Hiawatha's Sailing, Longfellow. 



ANIMALS 

 The Aquarium : 



An aquarium properly cared for and intelligently used 

 is not only an object of beauty in the schoolroom, but 

 also an efficient aid in nature work. Unfortunately 

 uncared for and unused aquaria are the rule; but this is 

 not because there is any real difficulty in so establishing 

 the proper balance between the plant and animal life 

 that the tank is self-regulating. On the contrary, it is a 

 perfectly simple thing to have a healthy, beautiful aqua- 

 rium, which needs no care from year's end to year's end, 

 except to feed the fish and occasionally to replenish the 

 evaporated water. 



