ARDEA'S SOLDIER 



were cruel of heart and had sold themselves to do evil 

 for the sake of dollars that covetous men and women 

 would pay for feathers. 



Because of his courage and because of the cause for 

 which he died, I think, don't you, that Ardea's Soldier 

 might well be called '' Knight of the Snowy Heron.'' 



I said that he was alone, ajud it is true that no one 

 was there at the camp to help him. But many there 

 were in other places doing their bit in the same good 

 fight. Another soldier, named Theodore Roosevelt, did 

 much for these birds when he was President, by grant- 

 ing them land where no man had a right to touch 

 them ; for it makes a true soldier angry when the weak 

 are oppressed, and he said, ''It is a disgrace to America 

 that we should permit the sale of aigrettes." Another 

 man, named Woodrow Wilson, whose courage also was 

 so great that he always did what he believed to be 

 right, would not permit, when he was Governor of New 

 Jersey, a company to sell aigrettes in that State; he 

 said, ''I think New Jersey can get along without blood- 

 money." 



Many another great man, besides, served the cause of 

 Ardea. So many, in fact, that there is not room here to 

 tell about them all. But there is room to say that the 

 children helped. For, you know, every Junior Audubon 

 Society sends mon^y to the National Association of 



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