SANCTUARY 285 



up with a boy even more quickly than a grown 

 person. 



"My friend Baynes, who knows nearly all there 

 is to know about attracting bird guests around 

 him, thinks as I do about boys. 'Somehow,' he 

 says, * I can never become very much worried over 

 the question of the small boy with his air gun and 

 sling shot. I know he does a lot of harm, but, as 

 a rule, he isn ^t pigheaded, and as soon as some one 

 he believes in takes the trouble to explain the 

 situation to him, he'll turn round and become a 

 bird protector of a very useful kind. 



'' 'The harm he does is usually the fault of the 

 people who have brought him up. He may or he 

 may not have been told not to kill birds. It's al- 

 together too easy to tell boys not to do things; 

 that 's why so many people do it. It 's much harder 

 to give them good, convincing reasons, and then 

 offer a satisfactory substitute for the thing for- 

 bidden.' " 



The Feather Man broke off. 



**That," he remarked quietly, **was why Baker 

 gave you the camera. You have left off robbing 

 nests of their eggs not because you were advised 

 against it, but because you found bird photography 

 was better. Isn't that so?" 



