136 Wild Bird Guests 



and useful act will tend to increase their pleasure, 

 and will greatly add to their store of pleasant 

 memories. 



By working together in this way, the people 

 of each town and village and hamlet can take care 

 of its own birds, and the result will be a marked 

 increase in their numbers without very much 

 trouble or expense to any one person. 



But it is the feeding of the birds in the home 

 grounds, in the gardens, and orchards that ap- 

 peals to the greatest number of people. Here is 

 a work in which almost everyone, little children 

 and elderly people included, can take an active 

 part. And here, as a rule, will begin those strong 

 friendships for birds which will make the stanch 

 bird-protectors of the future. Here will come 

 many of those delightful experiences with birds 

 which will be among the purest delights of child- 

 hood, which will surely be looked forward to and 

 repeated with pleasure and satisfaction as the 

 years go by, and which we can never grow too old 

 to enjoy. 



Unless we are among the few who feed the 

 birds all the year round, we should begin to pre- 

 pare rather early for the winter work. Even 

 before the first frosts begin to suggest the coming 

 of colder weather we may order from the butcher 

 a few pounds of suet or fat fresh pork, and find 



