40 WHAT TO DO IN THE COUNTRY 



Grasshoppers. What a big jump they can make! 

 They chirp most when the hot sun is streaming 

 down on them. The chirp is caused by the Grass- 

 hopper using the edge of the wing as a fiddle string, 

 and his leg as a fiddle bow. 



There is a very beautiful tree I want you to 

 notice. It has graceful hanging branches and 

 rather small leaves, which twinkle, twinkle, as the 

 wind stirs them. It is such a graceful tree that it 

 is known as the " Lady of the Woods." On its 

 trunk the outer bark sometimes peels and rolls up 

 and looks like silvery tissue paper. Will you try 

 and find out its ordinary name ? 



I should like you also to look well at a leaf from 

 an Elm tree, and tell me in what way it is different 

 from most other leaves. 



Of course you all know an Ant when you see 

 one, and I'm sure you have read about their 

 making little hillocks called Ant-hills, sometimes 

 in the woods, sometimes on the commons. Now 

 there's a sweet-scented little flower that likes to 

 grow on those Ant-hills on the commons. It has 

 tiny purple flowers which grow in bunches, very 

 small but scented leaves, and woody stalks which 

 are rather tough. Have you ever found this 

 flower ? 



Perhaps you could find out for me other plants 

 which have their leaves scented as well as their 

 flowers. 



