398 NATURE-STUDY 'REVIEW [i3:g_Dec., igi; 



afraid to sleep, afraid to drink or bathe and when No\xmber 

 came only twenty of us were left." 



"Well, the next sprini^ I married when I was just a year old 

 and I ha^'e the dearest and best little wife in the world. We 

 raised only two families last year because of the drought but this 

 year we shall have three for Mrs. White is now sitting on her third 

 nest full of eggs. The first nest-full this year she sat on for twent\'- 

 four days and brotight out twelve lovely babies. A few weeks 

 later she had laid fifteen more eggs in the nest and had to sit 

 on them so I played Moth-er to the babies and took just as good 

 care of thein as she. She hatched the whole fifteen and is now 

 sitting on ten more eggs. I have taken such good care of our 

 babies and people are so good about here and try to keep all of 

 our enemies away so that I have the whole twenty-seven happy 

 about me." 



"Do you know old Airs. Meade who lives on the next ranch? 

 Of course you do. Well she is just as kind to us as she is to you 

 little children and everv morning we go over there and eat with 

 the chickens." "This spring, she scattered some grain down in 

 the brush near the creek for us and each day she scattered some 

 a little nearer the house until we got right into the yard with the 

 chickens and were not at all afraid." 



"We spend a good deal of time on Mrs. Meade's ranch to i)ay 

 her for her kindness and that is why she has the best grain and 

 fruit about here. You see we are just like you, children, 

 Mrs. Meade loves children and is good to you so you ne\'er think 

 of scaring her chickens or pulling up her flowers or robbing her 

 bird's nests but you do any kindness possible for her just as we 

 do. Each year we help to make her crops better." 



Coming Issues of the Nature-Study Review 



Winter Habits of Common Wild Animals . - - - January 



School Gardens -------- March 



Fish and Fish Farming - - - - - - April 



The January issue is No. 1 of Vol. XIV, Start new subscriptions at once 

 $1.00 per year of 9 issues. 



