How NAtURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT f 



any of you young people know what a boat 

 is ! " 



Even the Visitor laughed at his own discom- 

 fiture, and the Deacon roared. Mrs. Brocker 

 laughed till she wiped her eyes as if she had been 

 crying, and the teacher, I did not know she could 

 laugh like that, laughed as we young folks did. I 

 do not believe she cared, then, whether she got 

 her certificate for next year or not, she just 

 laughed. 



" But," seriously ask the teachers who are read- 

 ing this chapter with a desire to find out what 

 nature study is, " what has all this to do with de- 

 fining nature study ? " 



Now, please, gentle reader, be really gentle and 

 come with me, so that we may together survey 

 the regions occupied by some of the principal 

 workers in this department of our profession. I 

 have been trying for several years, in my love of 

 nature, to ascertain what is meant in pedagogics by 

 this term nature study. I will admit that it has 

 been .somewhat of an embarrassing situation. But 

 let us first get the thing in mind, and when we know 

 what nature study is, we shall be ready to formu- 

 late a concise definition. 



I take up a prominent manual by Professor 



