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I gave the children thirty seconds to read this ange then turned it face to the 
wall and asked the children to write what it said. All the work perfectly or 
This thy ae ith great effect until they struck the word ‘‘ Prohibited’? ; one room 
caught t i 
“‘forbidden.’? The second room failed to respond, but one or two timid voices sug- 
gested ‘not allowed.’ No one of the 46 could read the word 
GRADE Hl 
1. **I could not read the words because they were to hard for me.’ 
2. ‘*Bothering the plants is against the law.’?/ 
3. “ Not to kill the plants and not to steal them.’’? 
should not pick the ee and imaph them away.’ 
5. ‘It means not to throw papers all over or to pick wildflowers or tame ones 
ether.” 
6, “It means dont pick Howers) branches or wildflowers. Because it is the law. 
Do eh aes rags on the garden 
7 think that putting rubbish on the ground would destroy the soil, and pick- 
ing ee by people that did not know how to pick them would destroy them and 
the department wants them kept panes 
8. meyones is not aloud to put any old trash at anywhere in ‘the garden. It is 
against the law.’ 
“It means that nobody can take any rubbigh or brak of ee branches because 
they want to make paper out of it. They will not alow you t 
to, *' It means ane you are to bring your plant in on ene morning and put it 
in the exhibition.’ 
Fifty-two children were tested. Thirty-three had more or pe of the idea that 
no flowers are to be picked ; 19 showed no conception of that 
Grade III. was more impressed with the fowers than with ae rubbish (see note 
on Grade IV. 
After Gshing the above work, I wrote the word “ prohibited’’ on the black- 
board and asked ae children to write its meaning. hirty-five children stated 
they sai not know’’; t7 gave the following or similar definitions : 
forbide 
forbiden 
stope 
unlaw 
no to e something 
not to do a thin; 
not to ae a thing 
not 
means nas you were told not to do a thing 
lo not do so and s 
