CHAPTER II

TO THE TEACHER

Read Kipling’s story in “The Second Jungle Book” called “The Spring Running.” Both Jungle Books ought to be in your school library. Spring is felt on the ocean as well as over the land; life is all of one piece; the thrill we feel at the touch of spring is felt after his manner and degree by bird and beast and by the fish of the sea. Go back to the last paragraph of chapter I for the _thought_. Here I have expanded that thought of the tides of life rising. See the picture of the herring on their deep sea run on page 345 of the author’s “Wild Life Near Home.” Let the chapter suggest to the pupils the mysterious powers of the minds of the lower animals.

FOR THE PUPIL

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_Mowgli_: Do you know Mowgli of “The Jungle Book”?

_Chaucer_: the “Father of English Poetry.” This is one of the opening lines of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

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_migrating birds_: See “The Great Tidal Waves of Bird Life” by D. Lange, in the “Atlantic Monthly” for August, 1909.

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_The cold-blooded_: said of those animals lower than the mammals and birds, that have not four-chambered hearts and the complete double blood-circulation.

_Weymouth Back River_: of Weymouth, Massachusetts.

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_catfish_: or horn-pout or bull-pout, see picture, page 12.

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_stickleback_: The little male stickleback builds a nest, drives the female into it to lay her eggs, then takes charge of the eggs until the fry hatch out and go off for themselves.