HOW TO SAVE OUR FEATHERED ALLIES 



children about their ways and habits. The birds 

 were their friends and companions, and the thought of 

 doing them an injury never entered their minds. Life 

 on a farm would be joyless indeed without the presence 

 of birds. There is an uplifting, spirit-awakening 

 influence in the study of birds which no other form 

 of life can inspire. 



" The lack of humane education is the principal 

 cause of crime." 



HOW TO SAVE OUR FEATHERED 

 ALLIES 



Argument and persuasion fall unheeded on the 

 ignorant, the uncouth, and the vicious. They cannot 

 be made to realise the harm which they do by wantonly 

 destroying birds. Many birds to them are of evil 

 omen, and therefore should be destroyed. Others 

 provide a meal, or their plumage or skins will bring 

 in a few coins. With others the desire to kill is still 

 strong within them — an instinct which has come down 

 through the ages from our remote ancestors, who lived 

 by the products of the chase. So, in order to gratify 

 this brutal instinct, they attack the most beautiful and 

 lovable of God's creations — the birds. Such people 

 can only be restrained by fear of punishment. 



Stray domestic cats in and about towns and villages, 

 and homesteads on farms, destroy great numbers of 



