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instruction in useful occupations and
studies Boys and girls can be taught
to care for temporary quarters, to use
tools, to make camp fire, to pitch a
tent, row or handle row boat, con.
struct shelters and camp furniture,
cut wood, prepare fishing tackle, make
traps and engage in various features
of woodcraft, and indulge in outdoor
games and sports, all of which induce
practical thought so helpful in cases
of emergency.
Instruction, however, can be ex-
tended beyond mere woodcraft to
very profitable and fascinating les
sons in natural history, in all of its
varied departments, to which can be
added astronomy, surveying sketch
ing, photography. taxidermy, etc. Mu-
sical instruments might be taken
along, too, and beginners given their
initial lessons in the woods away from
sensitive ears.
THE man who hath no music in him
self
And is net moved with concord Of
sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and
spoils"
The outdoor life gives ample scope
for youthful activity manifested in
running. jumping, swimming, etc.
kite flying can be INDUCED in, marks
shot at with blow guns, sings and
bows and arrows; tests of strength
and agility can be made in tugs of
war, in leap frog, in pitching quoits,
selimbing trees, in playing bah, and
scores of other games and pleasures
known to young people. Swings can
be put up, hammoeks swung, and see
saws made, and no end of healthful
and delightful pastime secured at no
cost except a little headwork and BEN
eficfaT muscular exercise
"To one who has been long in city
pent,
'Tis sweet to look into the fair
Ard open face of heaven-to breathe
prayer
Full III the smile Of the blue
armament"
The field for the study of natural
history is unlimited.
The botanist viii find plants, flow
ers, eiinging vines and fern life in a
hundred delicate forms among mighty
trees whose lofty branches overspread
races now resting in mounds where
the archaeologist can dslye and read
from bones and rude pottery the story
of the past.
Not a tree.
A plant, leaf, blossom but contains
A foifo volume. We may read, and
read,
And read again, and still find some
thing new,
Something to please, and something
to instruct" /"
The geo-ogst, too, with pick, ham,
mer and shovel can work in the pnos-
phate beds and find the fossil remains
Of huge animals common here before
the era of man The mammoth eIe-
phant, sabre-toothed tiger and other
beasts Of ancient times, the alligator
stiIl here, perhaps being a survivor of
the nncouth forms of life of the early
ages.
For the ornitho1ogist. with trap,
camera, gun and glass, birds abound
in numbers and variety. The haunts
and habits Of the feathered tribes can
be studied with an ease and freedom
hardly equaled anywhere in the coun-
try.
do you ever think what wondrous
beings these?
/ Do yOu ne'er think who made them
and who taught
The dialect they speak, whose melo-
dies
Alone are the interpreters OF thought? /?
Whose household words are songs in
many keys,
Sweeter than instruments Of man
e'er caught"
The entomologist, with nets, col
lecting boxes and bottles, viii not find