Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-15 | Page 15 | A Wildwood Study

A Wildwood Study 1 CLEVER boy who loved to be out oat of ot Ji I doors and who also loved to em employ employ employ ploy much of or of bis time In study and miscellaneous reading decided to build baUd for mot himself a study When the hot days clars of ol June should arrive this in pw n bat till tie line would world lie hI almost i 1 l P J i L r J I l r t tr r f ff f h r 1 i ar arThe The be W ill moa Study Stady Stud I I unbearable for be he loved loed to spend his j summer vacation as ae close dose to nature as possible BO eo he be took time by b the forelock fore tore forelock lock I k and while the month of May was still etin young he began his hili preparations for forthe forthe the summer On Saturday and on n many evenings after school ch ol he might be seen very verr busily bus y engaged In a beautiful woods near to the town where he lived lined He I was erecting 3 a summer house It was WAil made of stout pine beams firmly set t up upi i l in the shape of ot a shanty frame The t sides were closely covered with wire net netting netA tinS ting A roof was made of ot boards closely cl ely I joined together and slanting towards one I I side so as to shed the rain About the i sides of ot the summer summerhouse house was a trench dug 10 Inches deep This was to carry j off orr the falling rains Just inside Ins de this t ls j i trench and close to the floor beams were planted vines Tines which would cover corer the I j i walls as completely as all Its young occupant pant might desire Inside the study was wasI wasI I placed a wooden table rough but service serviceable serviceable able A wooden chair a little table book i t rack rak pens pencils and writing pads would complete the furnishings when the summer days Invited occupancy The woods belonged to a farmer who kindly consented to allow the young naturalist room for fOl his wildwood study dT And at the farmhouse only ony a quarter quarter of ofa ofa a mIle distant the boy Wy could procure procure i a iI I pitcher of or cold refreshing buttermilk to 1 sustain him from the morning till tUI dinnertime dinner dinnertime time giving him the whole day oday in fn the woods reading studying rambling Ung and testing resting as as his bis mood maid dictated dl tat d