... such habits that it was a difficult matter to got them to attend school. There wore really many special seasons, first fer blackberry picking, then for fern gathering, and so on. that the Guardians might bo excusing the children all tbe year But the law ...

... drawback is that so many things now offer facilities for such wage tting—potato-planting, fern- and primrose-gathering, blackberry-picking, &c.; 30 that the youngsters might do something nearly all the year round. But another drawback is that when once ...