After this long digression, intended to impress upon mothers the supreme importance of stirring up in their children a love of Nature and of natural objects – a deep-seated spring to send up pure waters into the driest place of after-life – we must return to the mother whom we have left out of doors all this time, waiting to know what she is to do next. This pleasant earth of ours is not to be overlooked in the out-of-door education of the children. ‘How do you get time for so much?’ ‘Oh, I leave out subjects of no educational value; I do not teach geography, for instance,’ said an advanced young theorist with all sort of certificates.