Hand Book Of The St Nicholas Agassiz Association

Author : Harlan H. Ballard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332179179
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Hand-Book of the St. Nicholas Agassiz Association (Classic Reprint) written by Harlan H. Ballard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hand-Book of the St. Nicholas Agassiz Association To test the matter more fully, having obtained the cordial co-operation of the editors of the St. Nicholas, the leading publication for the young in the United States, a general invitation to unite in the work was published in 1880, in the November number of that magazine. It was substantially as follows: The Invitation. You must know that, across the ocean and over the Alps, the boys and girls of Switzerland have a bright idea. They have formed a society, and they have a badge. The badge is a spray of evergreen, and the society is a Natural History Society. Once a year, in the spring time, when the sun has lifted the ice-curtain from the lakes, so that the fishes can look out, and the flowers can look in, the children from far and near come together for a meeting and a holiday. They are the boys and girls for a tramp. Their sturdy legs and long staves, their strong bodies and short dresses, their gay stockings and stout shoes prove that beyond a question. The long golden hair of the girls, tightly braided and firmly knotted with gay ribbons, flashes brightly as they go clambering over rocks, leaping across rivulets, scrambling along glaciers, and climbing steep cliffs. When the village schoolmaster, who usually leads these excursions, blows his horn, back come the children like laughing echoes, with baskets, pockets, boxes and bags full of the treasures of the wood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.