An apple is an apple.

There is no best about it.

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION.

Why the cow loves the apple. What else she will help herself to.

Let each pupil

tell what he has observed of the cow. I have seen bees in the city and birds help themselves to apples. Browsing. What goats browse on. (See "Our Rural

Divinity," also Thoreau's essay, "Wild Apples.")

Why an old tree is hollow. What has happened to the inside of the tree. Trees growing from the outside. Use of hollow trees as homes for animals. Review lesson from blackboard, making new sentences from the vocabulary of the last five lessons such as, "The bird is the friend of the apple-tree." Destroys insects. The appletree is the friend of the bird." Gives it a home.

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The meaning of the writer, "crop of birds," "crop of grain." tree has more apples. Why the old tree is more easily hollowed out. in hollow trees. What kind of beaks.

Why the young
Birds that live

Reading-lessons should do more than teach reading- they should educate.

WILBUR S. JACKMAN.

LESSON XXXV.

REVIEW.

1. A bee saw an apple.

2. The bee loves the apple for its sugar. 3. The bee does not like the spider's web. 4. Red is a squirrel.

5. Nig is a cat.

6. The squirrel is afraid of the hawk, the cat, and the boy

with a gun.

7. Red lived in a wall. Red

sat in the apple-tree.

8. The calf is afraid.

9. The turtle lives in a box.

10. The rabbit lives on the lookout. 11. The dog can not catch the squirrel. 12. Nig is black as ink.

13. There is sugar in the apple. 14. The apple-blossom is a rose.

(What other flower belongs to the rose-family?)

15. Nig knows the taste of the squirrel. 16. Does she know the taste of the apple? Why not?

17. What flower is this in the picture?

Mel means honey. Peggy Mel is the honey-bee. Difference between honey-bees and others. Queen-bee. Drone. Honey-bee or worker. How bees are kept by farmers. Why Peggy Mel stings. Independence in thinking is of more importance to the child than word-getting. Let the first consideration be the bee and her happiness, and her life and work. Words come themselves when the child is ready for words. (See "An Idyl of the Honey-Bee," published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)