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                    [Illustration: Birds in Winter]




                                  The
                            “LOOK ABOUT YOU”
                           Nature Study Books


                                   BY
                            THOMAS W. HOARE
                        TEACHER OF NATURE STUDY
      to the Falkirk School Board and Stirlingshire County Council

                               BOOK III.

                    [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo]

                       LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
                       16 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
                             AND EDINBURGH

              _Printed by M‘Farlane & Erskine, Edinburgh._




                                PREFACE.


This little book should be used as a simple guide to the practical study
of Nature rather than as a mere reader.

Every lesson herein set down has, during the author’s many years’
experience in teaching Nature Study, been taught by observation and
practice again and again; and each time with satisfactory result. The
materials required for most of the lessons—whether they be obtained