BIRD STORIES 



when you leave the water-hhes floating on the pond; 

 that it is the same as if you sow the seeds in wild gardens, 

 when you leave the cardinal flowers glowing on the 

 banks and the fringed gentians lending their blue to the 

 marshes. For the life of the world, whether it flies 

 through the air or grows in the ground, is greatly in your 

 care; and though you may never win a prize of money 

 for finding the dove that other people lost, there is a re- 

 ward of joy ready for anyone who can look at our good 

 old Mother Earth and say, ^^It will not be my fault if, 

 as the years go by, you lose your birds and flowers." 



And it would be, don't you think, one of the greatest 

 of adventures to seek and find and help keep safe such of 

 these as are in danger, that they may not, like the dove, 

 be lost? 



