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INVITATION 



A BIRD PAGEANT FOR THE DEDICATION OF A BIRD BATH 



Compiled for the Audubon Society of 

 Robert E. Lee (No. 30) School 



From those poets who love birds, especially Percy Mackaye. 

 JANUARY 18. 1922. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 



CAST OF CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE 



Ornis: A Fairy Lois Cunningham 



Annual Visitants to San Antonio 



Cardinat Helen McDavitt 



Dove Earle Harle 



Killdeer Marie Frazor 



Summer Tanager Paul Walton 



Orchard Oriole Hnos Reynolds 



Cedar Waxwing . John Herren 



Bluebird . Edna Taylor 



Tufted Titmouse . Edna Grote 



Scarlet Tanager Callie Dixon 



Quail . .' . James Butcher 



Yellow Warbler Thelma Krause 



SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER John Right 



Ringfisher Marguerite Uhr 



Great-tailed Grackle Nat. Adler 



Meadowlark Clinton Herring 



Red-headed Woodpecker Hugh Magill 



Field Sparrow Jerry Oates 



Blue Jay Celso Cuellar 



Vermilion Flycatcher Inez Ankerson 



Indigo Bunting Charles Pabst 



Ruby-throated Hummingbird Sidney Stewart 



Wren Irma Mesch 



Robin Nellie Jordan 



Mocking Bird Robert Loessberg 



Ornis comes forth from the retreat, bearing a pitcher of water. She mounts a little plat- 

 form made of tree branches by the covered bird-bath. She speaks to the children who are 

 seated in a circle nearby the bath: 



Come gather round this covered spot, 



Ye children of this city school. 



Be silent! Let the laughter of your play 



Be still! Hearken with quick ears, 



And you shall hear of treasure 



To which you all are heir. 



You have been robbed, O city children; 

 You have not known your feathered friends. 



