Summer

SUMMER DALLAS LORE SHARP
A SUMMER EVENING—NIGHT HERONS
(page 54)
The Dallas Lore Sharp Nature Series
by DALLAS LORE SHARP AUTHOR OF “THE LAY OF THE LAND,” “THE FACE OF THE FIELDS,” “WHERE ROLLS THE OREGON,” “THE FALL OF THE YEAR,” “WINTER,” “THE SPRING OF THE YEAR,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT BRUCE HORSFALL
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913 AND 1914, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY THE CENTURY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY DALLAS LORE SHARP ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . A
TO ROBERT BRUCE HORSFALL THE FRIEND AND ARTIST OF THESE FOUR BOOKS
In this fourth and last volume of these outdoor books I have taken you into the summer fields and, shall I hope? left you there. After all, what better thing could I do? And as I leave you there, let me say one last serious word concerning the purpose of such books as these and the large subject of nature-study in general.
I believe that a child’s interest in outdoor life is a kind of hunger, as natural as his interest in bread and butter. He cannot live on bread and butter alone, but he ought not to try to live without them. He cannot be educated on nature-study alone, but he ought not to be educated without it. To learn to obey and reason and feel—these are the triple ends of education, and the greatest of these is to learn to feel. The teacher’s word for obedience; the arithmetic for reasoning; and for feeling, for the cultivation of the imagination, for the power to respond quickly and deeply, give the child the out-of-doors.