TO THE GROWN-UP—LEND A HAND! 
THE training of the eye to correct seeing is one of the 
great advantages of bird study to the average child, 
quite aside from the value of the information gained, for 
this accurate gauge of the eye will always be a benefit in 
whatever calling may be followed, adding alike to the 
pleasure and profit of life. 
In every town or country village there is some one who 
takes more than passing interest in the life outdoors, 
who has a keener eye and more responsive ear than his 
neighbour, coupled with a heart that has a bit of Eden still 
lodged in it, so that it keeps tender and yearning toward 
the simple, direct affections of life, as expressed in child- 
hood and the lives of the timid wild brotherhood, whether 
of foot or wing. Are you one of these? If so, do you 
not realize that from your very make-up you draw more 
freely from nature’s bounty than do your neighbours, 
and are you not bound to share your pleasure with them? 
Not alone because it is pleasure, but that through the 
knowledge that comes with all real joy, the wild bird or 
beast may be more fully understood, and therefore pro- 
tected. All the more is this just and right, because we 
ourselves in our advancement are the main cause of 
their need of this protection, for as man increases, posses- 
ses, builds, and overflows the earth, so do these “ kindred 
of the wild” dwindle and silently disappear. 
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