BIRD FISHERMEN 205 



To some birds nature has given an easy life, to 

 others a hard one. But in each case it is possible 

 to succeed well or to fail miserably, and those birds 

 that best fulfil the tasks imposed upon them thrive 

 best, regardless of the relative difficulty of their 

 existence. Bird and beast and man must obey with- 

 out question the commands of Nature, be they stern 

 or mild, and none may profit by avoiding them. 

 There is a beautiful lesson in the example of the 

 different species of the feathered tribe, which waste 

 no time in trying to imitate their more gifted breth- 

 ren, or in decrying their inferior equipment, but 

 bravely employ those talents which they possess, 

 and succeed by their own efforts and in their own 

 separate ways. 



