The Spring of the Year
By Dallas Lore Sharp (1912)
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp (1912). Unabridged Charlotte Mason living book edition for Form II Natural History & Science.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 1
It has been my aim in the thirty-nine chapters of the three books in this series to carry my readers through the weeks of all the school year, not however as with a calendar, for that would be more or less wooden and artificial; but by readings, rather, that catch in a large way the spirit of the particular season, that give something definite and specific in the way of suggestions for tramps afield with things to look for and hear and do. Naturally many of the birds and animals and flowers mentioned, as well as woods and aspects of sky and field, are those of my own local environment—of my New England surrounding—and so must differ in some details from those surrounding you in your far Southern home or you on your distant Pacific coast, or you in your rich and varied valley of the Mississippi, or you on your wide and generous prairie. But the similarities and correspondences, the things and conditions we have in common, are more than our differences. Our sun, moon, sky, earth—our land—are the same, our love for this beautiful world is the same, as is that touch of nature which we all feel and which makes us all kin. Wherever, then, in these books of the seasons, the things treated differ from the things around you, read about those things for information, and in your journeys afield fill in the gaps with whatever it is that completes your landscape, or rounds out your cycle of the seasons, or links up your endless chain of life.
While I have tried to be accurate throughout these books, still it has not been my object chiefly to write a natural history—volumes of outdoor facts; but to quicken the imaginations behind the sharp eyes, behind the keen ears and the eager souls of the multitude of children who go to school, as I used to go to school, through an open, stirring, beckoning world of living things that I longed to range and understand.
The best thing that I can do as writer, that you can do as teacher, if I may quote from the last paragraph—the keynote of these volumes—is to “go into the fields and woods, go deep and far and frequently, with eyes and ears and all your souls alert.”
Mullein Hill, May, 1912
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Table of Contents
54 ChaptersEvery chapter below is pre-indexed for oral narration and easy 1-click scheduling into your weekly Charlotte Mason lesson plan.
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 1
Chapter I “Spring! Spring! Spring!”
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 2
Chapter Ii The Spring Running
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 3
Chapter Iii An Old Apple Tree
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 4
Chapter 5
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 5
Chapter 6
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 6
Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 8
Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 11
Chapter 12
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 14
Chapter 15
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 15
Chapter V If You Had Wings
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 16
Chapter 17
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 17
Chapter 18
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 18
Chapter 19
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 19
Chapter 20
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 20
Chapter 21
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 21
Chapter 22
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 22
Chapter 23
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 23
Chapter 24
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 24
Chapter 25
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 25
Chapter 26
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 26
Chapter Vii The Palace In The Pig-Pen
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 27
Chapter Viii Is It A Life Of Fear?
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 28
Chapter Ix The Buzzard Of The Bear Swamp
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 29
Chapter 30
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 30
Chapter 31
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 31
Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 34
Chapter 35
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 35
Chapter 36
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 36
Chapter 37
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 37
Chapter 38
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Chapter 39
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 39
Chapter Xi Turtle Eggs For Agassiz
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 40
Chapter Xii An Account With Nature
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 41
Chapter Xiii Woods Medicine
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 42
Chapter I
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 43
Chapter Ii
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 44
Chapter Iii
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 45
Chapter Iv
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 46
Chapter V
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 47
Chapter Vi
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 48
Chapter Vii
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 49
Chapter Viii
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 50
Chapter Ix
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 51
Chapter Xi
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 52
Chapter Xii
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 53
Chapter Xiii
The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp — Chapter 54
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