Cl)e ^utiubon ^ociette^ 



SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 



Edited by MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT 



Address all communications to the Editor of the School Department, National 

 Association of Audubon Societies. 141 Broadway, New York City 



A GOOD EXAMPLE 



THE honorable President of the National Association of Audubon So- 

 cieties had a birthday in January — his sixty-second — more power to him ! 

 In some way the fact leaked out in spite of the very quiet celebration of 

 the event, and some of the members of the La Rue Holmes Nature League who 

 are pupils of the public schools of Chatham, Orange, and Summit, New Jersey, 

 were moved to write their congratulations to Mr. Dutcher. 



As it is impossible to print all of the letters, the two below printed are given 

 as showing two opposite styles — the imaginative and the directly practical. As 

 for congratulations and the best wishes for many years ahead, for our President, all 

 filled with the work that is his greatest joy, all those who have worked with him, 

 and know his singleness of purpose, will heartily join with the children. — M. O. W. 



Summit Public School, No. i, Summit, N. J., January 17, 1907. 

 Dear Mr. Dutcher: — I am a boy in the Summit Public School. I know that 

 you cannot be thanked by the birds you have saved. I do not think I can 

 thank you very much, but as I grow up I am going to save all the wild birds 

 and flowers that I can. This will be the way I can thank you. 

 I also wish you a Happy Birthday and many of them. 



Your unknown friend, Oscar Hellquist. 



Summit, N. J., January 17, 1908. 



My dear Mr. Dutcher: — You probably do not know me, but I do know you. 

 I am a Partridge. I live in the woods in New Jersey. One of my children said 

 this morning, "Oh, mother! What a beautiful day it is." 



I said to him, " Well, I think you had better thank Mr. Dutcher for it, for 

 if it were not for Mr. Dutcher you would probably be dead l^y now, killed by a 

 naughty hunter." 



He then said, "Mother, I want you to write Air. Dutcher and thank him 

 for telling those naughty hunters not to kill us." 



So I am writing to thank you for passing laws so that " those naughty hunters" 

 cannot kill us. Your bird friend, E. N. Partridge. 



This is the letter Mrs. Partridge gave me this morning. I feel the same way 

 toward you, myself, for protecting our jpretty birds, and wish you a Happy 

 Birthday and many of them. Yours truly, Sadie Cadoo. 



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