UNCLE SAM 



die T\rins. '^ When the twins were three years old, their 

 molting season brought a remarkable change to them. 

 The dark feathers of their heads and necks and tails 

 dropped out, and in their places white feathers grew, so 

 that by this time they looked like their own father and 

 mother, w^ho are what is called ^^bald eagles," though 

 their heads are not bald at all, but well covered with 

 feathers. 



These two birds that were hatched in the home that 

 was more than seventy years old lived to see the end of 

 the war the young soldiers were training for when they 

 took their first flights together near the shore of the 

 same lake. And perhaps they will live to a time when 

 the people of their country learn to deal more and more 

 justly with each other and with the great bird of free- 

 dom chosen by their forefathers to be the emblem of 

 their proud land. 



Why, indeed, if the boys and girls of the neighborhood 

 keep up a guard for the protection of Uncle Sam and 

 Aunt Samantha, should they not nest again, and yet 

 again, in that tree-top home that has been so well taken 

 care of for more than threescore years and ten; and 

 bring up Yankee-Doodle Twins for their country in 

 days of peace as they did in days of war? 



