“I might add that Instructors from the Agricultural College of the United States gave the Indians new insight into modern farming methods.
“The first course for Indian Farmers in Wisconsin was held at Kashena, on the Menominee Reservation, and was attended by scores of Tribes-men.”
“O Chief, I can tell you something, too,” cried Billy, as his big brother sat down. “A treaty between Great Britain and the United States for the protection of insectivorous birds on both sides of the Canadian border was negotiated in 1916.”
“Who hasn’t read a paper?” asked Zan, looking around.
“You haven’t!” retorted Jane.
“I know, but I am reserving mine for the last as it is so superlative I knew the rest of you would feel too discouraged after hearing mine to read what you had written, so that the meeting would lose many reports,” explained Zan, mysteriously.
“Then I make a motion that the Chief be asked to make that boast good!” cried Elizabeth.
Amid laughter, the motion was loudly seconded and carried, and Zan waited for the uproar to quiet down before she said:
“You won’t feel so jubilant when you hear the lesson I have ready for you who persist in a great waste of physical energy. My article was culled from the pages of ‘The Guide to Nature’ which is a good magazine for Woodcrafters published by the Agassiz Association. They found this article in one of our leading magazines and considered it interesting enough to reprint.”
Then Zan read a paper she had written in her own amusing style, the main points of which she had read in the periodical mentioned.