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of life, which is a harder struggle as the world gets older 
and older. 
“Some people may not agree with me, but I had a good 
warm-hearted father, who gave his life in the cause of 
humanity; yet he loved fair hunting, and Goldilocks’ father 
did, also. So I think that the Kind Hearts’ Club will not 
only be doing the game-bird a service, but man also, if it 
can make and carry out a plan to feed and shelter these 
birds, even in the space of Fair Meadows township. 
“T have been talking this over with some men who 
know the haunts of these birds, and next month, if the 
big boys join us, I will tell you my plan; for it will need 
sturdy fellows to carry it out, though you can all help.” 
“Where do the Grouse nest, in bushes or on the ground ?” 
asked Dave; ‘‘I’ve never seen one, though I’ve found a 
Woodcock’s nest, and touched the bird on it, she was so 
tame.” 
“They make their nest on the ground, Dave,” said Gray 
Lady; “not much of a nest, merely a few leaves scratched 
together in a tree hollow. Now we have these real birds 
here (for later I know that Tommy will let me share them 
with Miss Wilde’s mother, who has been so ill, and her 
appetite needs tempting), let us spend the morning with 
the game-birds; Dave shall tell us of his Woodcock’s nest, 
and I have many little bits in the scrap-book about the 
others, besides remembrances of my own. 
“Children, can you realize that when I was a girl of 
twelve, I could stand of a May morn, by the old orchard 
bars, where the Birdland gate is now, and hear twenty or 
thirty Bob-whites calling all the way across the fields 
and brush-lots, until the Ridge shut off the sound? 
