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nesting of the birds but are led to stand forth for their protection 

 as well. This has been accomplished by having each, during the 

 month of March, make or have made, a small wren house which 

 is brought to the school room. Here it is put upon exhibition 

 after it has been painted. After this bird home has been thus 

 prepared, each pupil takes his particular bird house to his own 

 home yard where it is put up early enough in the season for the 

 little house wren to find it on his northward migration. And a 



Bird Lover's Club, Peru, (Nebr.) Normal. 



surprisingly large number of these little birds have found these 

 homes in this village. As one goes about the streets in almost 

 any section of the community he is greeted by the song of the 

 wrens. Those in touch with the child life of this community 

 say that within the last two or three years, since the organization 

 and active work of this bird club, the attitude of the boys and 

 girls toward the birds has almost completely changed. While 

 formerly it was not an uncommon thing to hear a boy or girl 

 speak of having shot or crippled some bird, it is now almost unheard 

 of. The ownership of the bird house has thus lead each boy and 

 girl to feel a paternal interest in all the feathered residents in the 

 community. 



B. Clifford Hendricks. 



