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of dew? Why? Why do people cover plants with news- 

 papers when they are afraid of a frost ? 



Literature : 



The poems with reference to snow and rain will be 

 found in the weather literature for previous months. 

 See pp. 15, 17, 18, 109. 



Stories : 



The General Thaw, Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature. 

 Aqua, Kate Douglass Wiggin's The Story Hour. 

 Story of the Boy and the Haarlem Dike. 

 Father Alclur, Alice Giberne. 

 A Drop of Water, Andersen. 



Easy Poems : 



The Brook, Tennyson. 



Little Jack Frost, Walker's Songs and Games. 



Jack Frost, Eleanor Smith. 



Little Artist, i 



Lovejoy's Nature in Verse. 



Jack Frost, 



Frost rictui'es. 



The River, J 



Jack Frost, Whittier's Child Life. 



3Tore Difficult Poems : 



Rain, Margaret Deland. 



The Frost Spirit, Whittier. 



Mad River, 1 



o T.- \ Longfellow. 



Songo River, J ° 



Fountain, Lowell. 



Lodore, Southey. 



A Farewell, Tennyson. 



Summer Shower, Emily Dickinson. 



PLANTS 



The study of the germinating seeds outlined in Chap. 

 V. will not be finished until the close of February, or 

 even until March. 



