REASONS WHY 65 
“Now, while you move about and rest yourselves a few 
moments, I will ask Dave and Tommy to bring that picture 
of the great white bird from the easel and place it by the 
table here, while I look in this portfolio for another to 
put with it. See — here is a bird that is much taller 
than the men beside it and wears bunches of plumes on 
tail and wings. These two birds represent the wrong 
and right side of feather wearing ! 
“What are their real names? The Snowy Heron and 
the Ostrich, both birds of warm climate. I’m always 
glad when children wish to know the real names of birds 
and try to remember them. No one can become actually 
a friend of a person or an animal whose name is merely 
general. Has Miss Wilde ever read you a little poem there 
is about the pleasure of learning real names? No? I 
will repeat it and perhaps she will let you learn it next 
Friday.” 
MATILDA ANN 
I knew a charming little girl, 
Who’d say, ‘‘Oh, see that flower!” 
Whenever in the garden 
Or woods she spent an hour. 
And sometimes she would listen, 
And say, “Oh, hear that bird!” 
Whenever in the forest 
Its clear, sweet note was heard. 
But then I knew another — 
Much wiser, don’t you think? 
Who never called a bird a “bird”; 
But said ‘‘the bobolink” 
