More wonders! To be allowed to go out of the classroom in school hours and then to talk! The children could hardly believe it. Miss Riker heard Nan Bobbsey and Nellie Parks timidly whispering.
“You may talk out loud,” she said, smiling.
Was it possible? It was, as the boys and girls soon found out. And then, how they talked!
“I see a brook!” cried Nan, presently.
“Yes, and I see a pond that might almost be a lake,” added one of the other girls.
“Yes, and there’s an island in the lake,” put in Bert, quickly, and he pointed to a small heap of dirt in the center of the pond. This remark made everybody laugh.
“I see a cliff,” said another boy, and pointed to the edge of a steep hill.
From Pine Hill they could look down on the lake and could see many natural formations that, in miniature, resembled the larger ones told about in the geography. Miss Riker had the boys and girls name the different formations of land and water.
“It was the nicest lesson we ever had!” said Nan Bobbsey, at home that night.
“Dandy!” declared Bert. “I wish she’d take us fishing some time!”