. St. Nicholas [serial] . all space the animals and plantsmust be few and proportionate in size. Keepthe aquarium in a cool place where the light isnot too strong: a north window does very well. THE COMPLETED AQUARIUM. Shows the layer of sand, the pebbles, and the aquatic plants. Theanimal life was too small to be visible in the photograph. beautiful ravine, through which glistened andrippled a small brook from the marshes. Herewas everything needed. First a three-pint pailwas filled with clean sand from a smooth,white, low bank projecting into a wide, shallowpart of the of the boysp
. St. Nicholas [serial] . all space the animals and plantsmust be few and proportionate in size. Keepthe aquarium in a cool place where the light isnot too strong: a north window does very well. THE COMPLETED AQUARIUM. Shows the layer of sand, the pebbles, and the aquatic plants. Theanimal life was too small to be visible in the photograph. beautiful ravine, through which glistened andrippled a small brook from the marshes. Herewas everything needed. First a three-pint pailwas filled with clean sand from a smooth,white, low bank projecting into a wide, shallowpart of the of the boyspicked up abouta quart of pebblesof various sizesand colors. Thesewere for orna-ment and to holddown in the aqua-rium the plantswhich were pulledup along by theedge of the brookfrom just beneaththe surface ofthe water. Somewith broad greenleaves, and othersthat had featheryleaves on a vine-like stem, werereadily obtained. From a near-by THE young naturalists gathering material for the aquarium from the brook in THE 1902.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 749 WE WILL WRITE TO ST. NICHOLAS ABOUT IT. thought the kite was a hawk. 912 California Avenue, Urbana, St. Nicholas: Only a little way from ourhouse there is a wood in which there are several hundredblackbirds. It was just about sundown that I was outwith my kite, and the birds were just coming they come and alight near the woods on a bigtree and sing together; but the kite seemed to frightenthem, and they did not gather as usual in the think they thought it was a hawk. Rachel Roades. Fly a kite over a farm-yard, and the fowlswill run to shelter, and the turkeys turn theirheads quarter-way around, and look up in thesky with one eye, saying, Quit, quit! exactlyas they do when a hawk is soaring overhead. which seasons are the best? Mendota, St. Nicholas: Hike spring and summer bet-ter than I like winter, although winter has its pleasuresof skating, sleigh-riding, and all those
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