22 NATURE-STUDY LESSONS. 



36. (a) Observe it when asleep and note how it places 

 its paws, its tail and its head. 

 (3) Discover whether it is a sound sleeper or not. 



(c) Note the places it selects for a sleep. 



(d) Infer whether the cat is fond of warmth or not. 



37. Write a composition on "the Cat" according to the 

 direction of the teacher. Illustrate it as freely as you can. 



IX.-THE DOMESTIC RABBIT. 



Observe rabbits at the homes of those who keep them, or in the school- 

 yard, if any are kept there. Observe wild ones in the woods and pastures, 

 if you have the opportunity. 



A. Its Food. 



1. (a) Discover what kind of food the rabbit relishes. 



Try grasses, carrot-tops, cabbage-leaves, let- 

 tuce, carrots, the stumps of cabbage, turnips, 

 grain, fresh branches of trees, etc. 

 (^) At what time of the day do they feed most 

 freely ? 



2. (a) Discover what the rabbit likes to drink. 



(3) Describe how it drinks and compare its man- 

 ner of drinking with that of the cat. 



B. Its Home. 



3. Why are the rabbits kept in a house or cage? 



4. (a) Allow them freedom and observe their move- 



ments. 

 (b) Where do they hide themselves? 

 {c) Notice how they burrow. 



5. Describe how they remove the earth, noting the use 

 made of the fore feet and of the hind ones. 



