2/6 WITH THE U. S. NATURALISTS 



*'For summer food, white mulberry, blue cornel 

 and red-berried elder. For autumn, flowering 

 dog-wood, bird cheriy and viburnum. For winter, 

 black alder, black haw and Virginia creeper. 



"Any one who plants any of these anywhere is 

 a benefactor to the birds. Just think, Shan, of 

 the difference it would make to our little feathered 

 chums, who have to work so hard to get enough to 

 eat, if the boys of America would plant these 

 shrubs and vines in gardens, in wood-lots, in the 

 hedges or any^vhere in the open country. If boys 

 would do that, even for ten years, there would 

 never be a famine in American bird-land as long 

 as they lived." 



'T'll plant 'Bull's Sanctuary' full of them," 

 said Shan. 



With this definite ambition before him, sach as 

 the planting of all these trees, shrubs and vines 

 for the Sanctuary, the planting of pond-weed, wild 

 rice and wild celery for his duck ponds, to say 

 nothing of the building of the duck fence, Shan's 

 summer was fully occupied. He proved a con- 

 scientious and careful attendant in the pheasant 

 pens and learned a great deal in the evenings. 



One day, as the hottest part of the summer ap- 

 proached, the Feather Man said to the boy, 



