5. All the children make themselves very useful in the house. Servants
are hard to get in Canada, so people must learn to help themselves. The
boys clean the boots and chop wood. The girls think nothing of helping
to scrub the floors.

6. After breakfast the children trudge off to school, which is three
miles away. They take their lunch with them. When they return in the
evening they have many odd jobs to do.

7. In the playground of their school you will see many young trees
growing. There are very few trees on the plains, and far more are
needed.

[Illustration: {Canadian schoolhouse}]

8. On one day in each year the children make holiday, and plant trees in
the school grounds. The teacher tells them that when they grow up they
must plant trees on their farms.

9. Harvest is the busiest time of the year. Then the children rise at
half-past four, and work all day long in the fields. Every one who can
work at all must do so at harvest time.

10. There is also plenty of work to be done in the autumn. Everything
needed in the house must be brought in before the snow begins to fall.

11. Winter is the real holiday time. No work can then be done on the
land. The rivers and lakes are frozen, and everywhere there is plenty of
skating. The wheels are taken off the carriages, and runners are put on