NATURE STUDY MADE EASY 63 



SUGGESTED WORK FOR CLASS 



Visit the park, and bring in leaves from the different oak trees. 

 Visit a museum, and see the leaves pressed. Press yours. 

 Draw a leaf of the White Oak, the Red Oak, the Black Oak. 



The Tender Beech and the Sapling Oak 



For the tender beech and the sapling oak, 



That grow by the shadowy rill, 

 You may cut down both at a single stroke, 



You may cut down which you will. 



But this you must know, that as long as they grow, 



Whatever change may be, 

 You can never teach either oak or beech 



To be aught but a greenwood tree. 



THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. 



LESSON XXI 



TOM'S LOG 



" Hello! I have just been looking for you," cried the merry 

 voice of Jack Hart, as he spied the back of Tom Brown's coat in 

 a timber yard. "What are you doing here? You will be late for 

 school." 



"No, I won't/' said Tom; "there are twenty minutes yet. I 

 was passing by here when I noticed that cross section of a log 

 over there, and I want to get it." 



