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Atalanta's race : Look up the story of the beautiful girl runner who 

 lost her race with her lover because of her desire to pick up a 

 golden apple. 

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Two mighty wings: an owl's wing marks, perhaps the barred owl 

 or the great horned owl, or the snowy owl, which sometimes comes 

 down from the north in the winter. 



CHAPTER II 



TO THE TEACHER 



This herding and driving of turkeys to market is common in other 

 sections of the country, particularly in Kentucky. I have told the 

 story (as told to me by one who saw the flock) in order to bring out 

 the force of instinct and habit, and the unreasoning nature of the 

 animal mind as compared with man's. 



FOR THE PUPIL- 

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Shepherd-dog : Only a well-trained dog would do, for turkeys are 



very timid and greatly afraid of a strange dog. 

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Black Creek : a local name ; not in the Geography. 

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a chorus of answering gobbles : Turkeys will follow their leader. 



It was this habit or trait that the boys now made use of. 



CHAPTER III 



TO THE TEACHER 



There is a three-pronged point to this chapter : (1) the empty 

 birds' nests are not things to mourn over. The birds are safe and 

 warm down south; and they will build fresh, clean nests when they 

 get back. Teach your children to see things as they are the whole- 

 someness, naturalness, wisdom, and poetry of Nature's arrangement. 

 The poets are often sentimental; and most sentimentality is entirely 



