of docked horses and requires a registration of every docked horse already in the state, besides imposing a heavy penalty for docking).

A Kabyl.-Schreyer.

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LITERATURE

Knee Deep in June.-James Whitcomb Riley. Memorize:

There is a singing in the summer air,

The blue and brown moths flutter o'er the grass,
The stubble bird is creaking in the wheat;
And perched upon the honey-suckle hedge,
Pipes the green linnet. Oh! the golden world,-
The star of life on every blade of grass,
The motion and joy on every bough,

The glad feast everywhere for things that love
The sunshine, and for things that love the shade.

ROBERT BUCHANAN.

From The Summer Pool.

The Summer Pool can be found in Stedman's Collection, published by Houghton Mifflin Co.

SEVENTH GRADE

NATURE STUDY

Summer solstice.

Emergency relief for man and laboring animals in hot weather.

CIVICS

Civic corps for emergency relief,-purpose, organization, finances, work, location, how to call for emergency relief.

Emergency hospital.

Ambulance service for suffering animals.

Aurora.-Reni.

ART

LITERATURE

The Days Gone By.-James Whitcomb Riley.

THE DAYS GONE BY

O the days gone by! O the days gone by!

The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through

the rye;

The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail As he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale; When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky,

And my happy heart brimmed over, in the days gone by.

In the days gone by, when my naked feet were tripped By the honeysuckle tangles where the water-lilies dipped, And the ripples of the river lipped the moss along the brink

Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed cattle come to drink,

And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the truant's wayward cry

And the splashing of the swimmer, in the days gone by.

O the days gone by! O the days gone by!
The music of the laughing lip, the lustre of the eye;
The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin's magic ring—
The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in everything,—
When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh,
In the golden olden glory of the days gone by.

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. From Rhymes of Childhood. Copyright, 1900. By special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Co.

EIGHTH GRADE

NATURE STUDY

The heavens in summer time.

Hydrophobia; what it is, causes; cases that look like hydrophobia; how to prevent it.

Proper muzzling.

CIVICS

Fountains for man and beast, on the public highways,-how they are provided for, how they should be provided for.

American National Red Cross Society,-purpose, organization, finances, work, and occasions when called into service; location of national and state headquarters.

Aurora.-Reni.

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LITERATURE

June.-James Russell Lowell.

JUNE

(An Extract)

"T is heaven alone that is given away,
'T is only God may be had for the asking;
There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.

And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays:

Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
Every clod feels a stir of might,

An instinct within it that reaches and towers
And, groping blindly above it for light,
Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers;
The flush of life may well be seen
Thrilling back over hills and valleys,
The cowslip startles in meadows green,

The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice,
And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean
To be some happy creature's palace;
The little bird sits at his door in the sun,
Atilt like a blossom among the leaves,
And lets his illumined being o'errun

With the deluge of summer it receives;
His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings,

And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings;
He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest,-
In the nice ear of Nature, which song is the best?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

From Lowell's Poems, from The Vision of Sir Launfal. By permission of Houghton Mifflin Co., publishers.

A CLASSIFIED LIST OF THE

MORE COMMON BIRDS

(The seasons mentioned apply to the middlenorth section of the United States.)

ORDER I. DIVING BIRDS (Pygopodes)

1. Family of Grebes.

2. Family of Loons.

ORDER II. LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS (Longipennes) 1. Family of Gulls and Terns, including:

Herring Gull, or Sea Gull (winter resident).
Ring-billed Gull (winter resident).

Bonaparte's Gull, or Sea Pigeon (spring
and fall migrant).

Common Tern, or Wilson's Tern (spring and fall migrant).

Black Tern, or Short-tailed Tern (summer resident).

ORDER III. TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS

(Steganopodes)

1. Family of Cormorants.

2. Family of Pelicans.