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ground up, keep down the weeds, and 
be of great help in the crop. Some people 
will say that the children ought to be at 
work in something more useful, rather 
than in raising flowers. \Ye must not, 
however, forget that in times like these 
flowers and things of beauty should not 
be entirely neglected. There are trying 
times ahead of us all, and we have got 
Walh RUjJit In. Fig. 305 
cultivator and plow. That went well 
enough until we came to the apple trees, 
which we usually found in the garden 
and field. It always seems as if old 
Dick had a grudge against us, for when¬ 
ever he came anywhere near a low limb 
he put on extra speed so as to throw us 
off against the limb if he could. 
You might not think it, but in the pic¬ 
ture shown at Fig. 307 the baby is being 
held by her aunt. It is not often that 
you see exactly such a combination as 
this, but I have often thought that these 
young children who are actually uncles 
and aunts to real babies must grow up 
with Quite an idea of their own dignity. 
The picture at Fig. 303 comes from 
Southern Michigan. Mr. H. E. Merritt 
tells us this is a city boy on the farm,! 
looking over the calf. The city child 
when he first comes out of town is, of 
course, entirely new to the country, and 
some of the blunders these children make 
in trying to size up the animals and 
plants are very laughable to country peo¬ 
ple. I heard of some city children who 
went out to visit a friend in the country, 
and when no one was watching them 
they went out in the garden and cut all 
the blossoms off the .squash vines, as they 
thought those flowers were very pretty. 
Cut Out the Young fihoots. Fig. SO/f 
to have the sentiment of the flowers as 
well as the wheat bread and the meat in 
order to carry us through. 
There, is another case at Fig. 30G, where 
the children are helping in these war 
times. The white horse has come back 
from the field for his nooning, and the 
children have climbed on his back to help 
him along a little. Y"ou can easily see 
that they are all three listening to the 
dinner horn. The forenoon work out in 
the sun has given them an appetite. It 
may be a meatless meal that they are 
waiting for. but at any rate they will 
enjoy it and go back again ready to help 
the country. Those two children are 
having the time of their life on that old 
horse. ^lany of us who are now grown 
up used to have to ride the horse to the 
A TAttle Aunt and Her 'Niece. Fig. 307 
That boy in the picture will finally get 
a little closer to that calf. Perhaps he 
will undertake to pat him on the head 
and call him “good bossy.” Then all of 
a sudden that calf will bunt up his head, 
strike the city boy somewhere, and over 
he will go flat on the ground. Most of 
us who live in the country have seen a 
calf with his nose down into a pail of 
milk, apparently drinking through his 
mouth and both nostrihs. Some city man 
or woman will stand in front of the calf, 
perhaps quoting poetry about the beauti¬ 
ful creature. All of a sudden the calf 
lifts his head and blows a pint or so 
Three Prize Penn.<iylvania Children 
Fig. 
30'i 
of milk out of his nose. Thei'e is no 
more i)oetry mentioned about the calf 
that day. 
The picture at Fig. 304 was taken in 
Maryland, just before the trees began 
to leaf out_. The photographer writes 
that she thinks it is about time to re¬ 
move the young “shoots” from the tree.s, 
and probably that is right. IIow chil¬ 
dren do like to climb trees! Most of us 
who look back a good many years to the 
farm, remember how we used to go down 
to the meadow and climb a birch tree, 
get hold of the top of it and swing down 
to the ground. That was even more 
fun than tilting on a board laid across a 
barrel. .1. T. Trowbridge has written a 
poem about this swinging on a birch 
tree, and it brings back memories to 
The Thing Noio on the Mind Is Dinner. Fig. 306 
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