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when we were out in the yard by Hghting on us when we least expected it, 

 or coming down in the flowers we were gathering, to look for little insects 

 among them. 



At night we coaxed this baby Oriole to the cage with sugar, which it would 

 always come for, and then we closed the door for safety's sake. Early in the 

 morning Beauty called to have the door opened and seemed so glad to get out 

 to the tree and the bugs again! 



Just now our bird is sitting on 

 the table eating peanuts which 

 little sister is crushing for it. 

 Beauty loves to have a taste of 

 everything — meat, potatoes, vege- 

 tables or ice-cream — and begs for 

 a share of them all and is so very 

 wise and cunning, with head on 

 one side waiting for something 

 more. 



We cannot begin to describe 

 how cunning our pet is, and we 

 are all so fond of this little bird 

 foundling ! We wonder if it will 

 fly south with the Orioles in the 

 fall and if it will come back to us 

 next year. We should know it by 

 the crippled foot, and how we 

 hope Beauty will come back to us 

 again! — Ruth H. Scott (age 12 

 years). Wake Robin Junior Audu- 

 bon Society, Kingston, N. Y. 



[The teacher who forwarded this 

 contribution writes: "Last spring, I 

 formed a Junior Audubon Society with 

 twelve little girls; other children heard 

 of it and wanted to join. Before school 

 closed we had over seventy members. In May many of them spent a Saturday at 

 Slabsides with John Burroughs. I have known him for many years. 



"We took walks once a week, after school, and to most of the children, it opened up 

 a new world. They began to notice all the birds and then try to find out their habits 

 and loved to tell about what they had noticed. 



"I am enclosing a little story that I thought perhaps you could use in Bird-Lore. It 

 might be a help to some other little folks to know how to make friends with the birds. 

 It would be impossible to tell of the many cunning things 'Beauty' did. I was a personal 

 friend of his. 



"The little girl who is sending it has been especially interested in birds for two or 

 three years, knowing most of our familiar birds by call as well as by sight. 



■AT NIGHT WE COAXED THIS BABY ORIOLE 

 TO THE CAGE WITH SUGAR" 



