—­Mary A. HEERMANS.

=3.  Reading Arbor day law, or proclamation of Governor.=

[As the laws regarding Arbor Day vary in different States, it will be necessary for each teacher or superintendent to procure and read the one applicable to his State.]

=4.  Reading letters in reference to Arbor day.=

[These may consist of circular letters from superintendents, etc., and other incidental letters.  It is suggested that notes of invitation to the exercises be sent to the parents of the children and to influential people.  These will in many cases elicit replies bearing on the subject.  In case such letters cannot be secured, at this point the “Encouraging Words” printed on page 15 of this pamphlet may be read with profit.]

=5.  Recitation.=

All things beautiful.

    All things bright and beautiful,
      All creatures great and small,
    All things wise and wonderful,—­
      The Lord God made them all.

    Each little flower that opens,
      Each little bird that sings,
    He made their glowing colors,
      He made their tiny wings.

    The purple-headed mountain,
      The river, running by,
    The morning, and the sunset
      That lighteth up the sky.

    The tall trees in the greenwood,
      The pleasant summer sun,
    The ripe fruits in the garden,—­
      He made them, every one.

    He gave us eyes to see them,
      And lips that we might tell
    How great is God Almighty,
      Who hath made all things well.

    —­C.F.  Alexander.

=6.  Reading.  Bryant’s Forest Hymn.= (See page 8.)

=7.  Recitations.= (By Different Pupils.)

The purpose of Arbor day.

First pupil.

To avert treelessness; to improve the climatic conditions; for the sanitation and embellishment of home environments; for the love of the beautiful and useful combined in the music and majesty of a tree, as fancy and truth unite in an epic poem, Arbor Day was created.  It has grown with the vigor and beneficence of a grand truth or a great tree.

     —­J.  Sterling Morton.

Be noble.

Second pupil.

    Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
    In other men sleeping, but never dead,
    Will rise in majesty to meet thine own;
    Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes,
    Then will pure light around thy path be shed,
    And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone.

    —­Lowell.

Leaves.

Third pupil.