THINGS TO DO THIS WINTER 



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VI 



Go out on a cold December day, or a January 

 day, and see 

 how many 

 " signs " of 

 spring 

 " Minor Pro- 

 phets," as Mr. 

 Torrey calls them - 

 you can bring home. 

 They will be mostly 

 buds of various 

 sorts. Then, on a 

 warm, soft day, go 

 again to see what 

 you can bring home 

 flitting, creeping, crawling things that the warm 

 sun has brought from their winter hiding. 



VII 



Make a map of your sky, showing the positions 

 of the planets, the constellations, and the most 

 brilliant stars, the points in the horizon for the rising 

 and setting of the sun, say, in January, noting the 

 changes in places of things since your last map drawn 

 in October. Any school child can do it, and, in 

 doing it, learn the few large facts about the sky 

 that most people are pitifully ignorant of. 



