Material: Cardboard (white or tinted) 5 in. x 5 1/2 in; pussy willows; paste; ribbon; pen and ink; needle and thread; ruler.

Place the cardboard rectangle on the desk, with the long edge toward you.

Three inches from the upper left-hand corner, on the short edge, make a dot.

Lay the ruler from this dot across the paper parallel with the upper edge of the card.

One and three-fourths inch from this dot, make another, and one-quarter of an inch from this dot a third.

Draw a line connecting the two dots which are 1/4 inch apart. Using this line as a base, make a rectangle 7/8 inch high, (a, Fig. 1.)

Paste a pussy willow above the rectangle, having the round end down.

Draw a tail below and a cat's head above the pussy willow.

Make three other drawings in the same way.

Have the drawings in a row, and 3/4 inch apart.

Sew a small branch of pussy willows across the upper left-hand corner of the card.

Tie a loop and bow of ribbon at the top of the card.

At the bottom print any appropriate verse, such as the following:

Pussy willow, can you meaw? What? You don't know how? Listen, if you wish to know, For this pussy will, O!

Come Spring, for now from all the dripping eaves, The spear of ice has wept itself away.

Tennyson

Come Spring! She comes on waste and wood, On farm and field.

Tennyson.