The lessons in drawing, painting, end modelling had been connected with this work. From their boxes of coloured crayons, the pupils had selected the colours used in making the pine trees, the grass, the bark of the trees, the owl in the tree, the wigwams, etc. From the many beautiful Indian lullabies that would have been suitable, the teacher selected the _Indian Lullaby_ by Longfellow. During the periods set apart for music, the pupils had been taught the desired melody with the syllable "loo". _Teacher._ "How does your mother put baby to sleep?" _Pupils._ "My mother rocks the baby in her arms." "Mine puts him on the bed and he falls asleep." "We rock our baby in a cradle," etc. _Teacher._ "The picture I give you will show you what the Indian mother does with her baby." Each pupil was given a small picture showing an Indian baby in his cradle suspended from a tree. These pictures had been cut from a supplement to _Primary Education_. _Teacher._ "What has the mother done?" _Pupils._ "She has put her baby in a basket and hung it on a tree." _Teacher._ "Is the baby in the picture awake or asleep?" _Pupils._ "He is asleep." _Teacher._ "What could the baby see before he went to sleep?" Here a picture--fourteen by twenty inches--was shown. It was a good representation of an Indian home and its surroundings. The pupils had made use of this picture when working at the sand-table. _Pupils._ "He could see the pine trees, the water, the wigwams, the canoes, the Indians," etc. _Teacher._ "What could the baby hear while swinging in his cradle?" _Pupils._ "He could hear the Indians talking. He could hear the wind among the trees; the water; the birds singing in the woods; the cry of an owl; perhaps wolves, bears," etc. _Teacher._ "What other babies lived in the woods?" _Pupils._ "Birds, squirrels, owls, wolves," etc. _Teacher._ "A man once wrote what he thought an Indian mother might have sung to her baby. This is what he thought she would sing." (The teacher recited the _Indian Lullaby_.) Individual pupils then repeated one stanza at a time with the assistance of the teacher. The pupils sang softly the melody they had learned to "loo"; then all tried to sing the words with the teacher. The purpose was to emphasize the rhythm and interpret the spirit of the poem. The lesson occupied twelve to fifteen minutes. At another time, hectographed copies of the poem were given to the pupils, and as they had already partly memorized it, they soon learned to read it. CHAPTER IV FORM I: SENIOR GRADE THE WIND AND THE LEAVES (First Reader, page 49)