Chapter VII: To the Teacher

Make a point of going into the winter woods and fields, taking
the pupils as often as possible with you. It may be impossible
for your city children to get the rare chance of glare ice; but
don’t miss it if it comes.

This is the time to start your bird-study; to awaken sympathy
and responsibility in your pupils by teaching them to feed the
birds; to cultivate cheerfulness and the love of “hardness” in
them by breasting with them a bitter winter gale for the pure
joy of it. Use the suggestions here for whatever of
resourcefulness and hardiness you can cultivate in the girls as
well as in the boys.

FOR THE PUPIL

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_the good things to read:_ To name only a few of them, we might
mention John Burroughs’s “Winter Sunshine” and “Squirrels and
Other Fur-Bearers,” Bradford Torrey’s “Footing it in Franconia,”
Frank Bolles’s “At the North of Bearcamp Water,” William
Hamilton Gibson’s “Eye Spy,” William L. Finley’s “American
Birds,” and Edward Breck’s “Wilderness Pets.”