. Vögel und Natur . Junge, wir schallbe zahlen die Schulden, die wir in der größten Maßnahme möglich. Können wir solche sicheren Retreats bieten? Ich denke, wecan. Ihr eigener Türhof könnte solch einen Rückzugsort verbessen. Verbannt alle Hunde, die Vogelfleisch lieben. Sehen Sie, dass streunende Katzen und Hunde in ihrem Leben auf Ihrem Rasen oder in Ihrem Garten sind. Lassen Sie jeden Jungen wissen, dass die Vögel auf Ihrem Gelände nuist nicht in irgendeiner Weise gestört werden. Anstatt alle Tanglesder Reben und Äste sorgfältig auszuschneiden, erinnern Sie sich daran, dass solche Orte sind, wo die Vögel entlichtet werden, um ihre Nester zu bauen. Stellen Sie Vogelkisten und Häuser für
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. Birds and nature . young, we shallbe paying the debt we owe in the great-est measure possible. Can we provideany such safe retreats? I think wecan. Your own door yard may bemade such a retreat. Banish all catsand dogs who love bird flesh. See toit that stray cats and dogs are in dan-ger of their lives on your lawn or inyour yard. Let every boy know thatthe birds on your premises nuist notbe disturbed in any way. Instead ofcarefully trimming out all the tanglesof the vines and branches rememberthat such places are where the birds de-light to build their nests. Put up birdboxes and houses for the martins, wrens, swallows and bluebirds andkeep the English sparrows out of them.Make it easy for the birds while theyarc feeding their young. In short, give the birds which prefer your yarda little attention and you will soon beon friendly terms with them and theywill many times repay any trouble youmay put yourself to for their sakes.Any study of the birds is not wastedtime, but time profitably spent. Lynds Jones.. 125 A FEW OF THE BIRD FAMILY. The old bob white, and chipbird; The flicker and chee-wink, And little hopty-skip bird Along the river brink. The blackbird and snowbird, The chicken-hawk and crane ;The glossy old black crow-bird, xA.nd buzzard, down the lane. The yellowbird and redbird. The toni-tit and the cat;The thrush and that redhead bird The rests all pickin at! The jay-bird and the bluebird, The sap-suck and the wren—The cockadoodle-doo bird, And our old settin hen! James Whitcomb Riley THE DOMESTIC FOWL. The writers of antiquity used the termfowl to include all the members of thebird tribe and, in some cases, the youngof other animals. Feathered creatures, no matter what their habits, were notcalled birds, neither were they separatedinto classes other than the Fowls of theAir, Fowls of the Sea, Fowls of theEarth, and similar descriptive divisions. In the seventeenth and the earlier partof the eighteenth century, the word fowlwas applied to any large feathere
