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satisfactory baths we have. One has the natural 

 hollow which I have described. 



It is set upon a well-made stone foundation, 

 a hole has been drilled down through to admit a 

 lead pipe which supplies running water, and a 

 little bronze tablet bolted to the granite shows 

 that the bath is placed there in memory of Dr. 

 Edward Everett Hale, and gives the name of Miss 

 Harriet E. Freeman of Boston who presented 

 it to the Bird Club. I often think how much 

 more appropriate as a memorial to a real man 

 or woman, is a beautiful thing like this, made 

 by Nature, carved by her mighty forces, and 

 dedicated to the use and enjoyment of the 

 loveliest of her children, than a shining, ugly, and 

 utterly useless polished shaft, whose sole recom- 

 mendation is that it costs from a hundred to a 

 thousand times as much. In the case of the 

 other boulder bird bath, which is on the campus 

 of the local academy, a hollow was chiseled out 

 by a mason at small expense. 



When we decide to have such a bath our plan 

 is to appoint a committee, each member of which 

 has a good general idea of the kind of boulder 

 required. When any member goes for a walk, 

 he keeps his eyes open for likely boulders and 

 when he finds one which he thinks will do, he 

 takes the other members to see it. If it is 



