The most efficient help we can give you is through the organizing of your pupils into Junior Naturalist clubs. We give these clubs especial instruction in gardening and the improvement of home and school grounds. Children receive great inspiration from large numbers doing the same thing, while we can give instruction to ten thousand as easily as to one child. Many hundreds of teachers and thousands of children find the study of nature a beam of sunshine in the schoolroom and a great aid in the English period without being a burden to the teacher. PART II. CHILDREN'S LEAFLETS. DESIGNED TO OPEN THE EYES OF THE YOUNG. Most of these leaflets were published as companions to the Teachers' Leaflets and Lessons,--the teachers' lessons written in one vein and the children's in another. Even though the subject-matter may be largely duplicated in the two, it seems worth while to keep these separate as showing a simple method of presentation and as suggesting a means of procedure to those who would reach small children. THE CHILD'S REALM. BY L. H. BAILEY. A little child sat on the sloping strand Gazing at the flow and the free, Thrusting its feet in the golden sand, Playing with the waves and the sea. I snatch'd a weed that toss'd on the flood And parted its tangled skeins; I trac'd the course of the fertile blood That lay in its meshèd veins; I told how the stars are garner'd in space, How the moon on its course is roll'd, How the earth is hung in its ceaseless place As it whirls in its orbit old:-- The little child paus'd with its busy hands And gaz'd for a moment at me, Then dropp'd again to its golden sands And play'd with the waves and the sea. LEAFLET LI. A SNOW STORM.[68] BY ALICE G. McCLOSKEY. (Compare Leaflet VII.) A chill no coat however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, * * * * * The coming of the snow storm told. --WHITTIER. [68] Junior Naturalist Monthly, December, 1903. [Illustration] "Surely, it is going to snow," says Grandfather, as he puts an armful of wood into the old box beside the fire; and a happy feeling comes over you, and you like Grandfather a little better because he has promised you a snow storm. "What a wise old Grandfather he is!" you think. He always seems to know what is going to happen out-of-doors and you wonder how he learned it all. Perhaps I can tell you why Grandfather is so wise. When he was a boy he lived on a farm and was in the outdoor world summer and winter. There he learned to know Nature day by day. This is why he can consult her now as to wind and weather, and why he nearly always understands what she tells him. He is a good observer.