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a sort of bird bridge of refuge; and then comes New Mex- 
ico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana, without 
good laws; but fortunately for the coast birds, Washington, 
Oregon, and California are on our side, and it is the duty 
of every boy and girl as well as every man and woman 
to learn the laws of the state where they live, and keep 
them. 
CRUELTY TO WILD ANIMALS 
“There are many children of foreign birth who perhaps 
would not break the laws of this country if they knew of 
them, but do so innocently because they either do not 
know, or do not speak English well enough to understand 
them fully, and think that in this country, where they 
have so much liberty, they are free to do as they like about 
everything. 
“There are also Americans, I am sorry to say, as well as 
foreign born, who have a heartless streak in them, and 
first show it by cruelty to helpless, harmless animals. 
This should be stopped, as much for their good as future 
citizens as for the welfare of the wild animals themselves, 
for the child who will kill or torture a dumb beast has the 
germs of murder in him that may later, in a fit of passion, 
break out toward a fellow-being. 
“What do you think of boys — yes, and girls, for I saw 
one last spring — who would spend an afternoon in stoning 
the hanging nest of an Oriole until the nestlings, dying, 
stopped their pitiful cries and fell to the ground in the rags 
of their wonderful home, while their parents circled about 
in agony? Sad to say, these were American-born children, 
