I 8 The Bird 



return sooner or later to earth for rest and food, and thus 

 all are at our mercy. 



Let us beware of needlessly destroying even one of 

 the lives — so sublimely crowning the ages upon ages of 

 evolving; and let us put forth all our efforts to save a 

 threatened species from extinction; to give hearty aid 

 to the last few individuals pitifull}^ struggling to avoid 

 absolute annihilation. 



The beauty and genius of a work of art may be recon- 

 ceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; 

 a vanished harmon}^ may yet again inspire the composer; 

 but when the last individual of a race of living beings 

 breathes no more, another heaven and another earth 

 must pass before such a one can be again. 



