XXVIII 
FLAG DAY 
Tue Spring Sale of the work of the Kind Hearts’ Club 
was held the Saturday after Arbour and Bird Day. 
People who had seen the bird-houses that their friends 
had bought at Christmas drove over from towns many 
miles away, while those who had been before came again 
and seemed perfectly fascinated by the birds’ baths and 
drinking-troughs made from the hollowed logs. 
The money thus being secure, the wayside drinking- 
fountain for man, beast, and bird was begun at once 
and before Memorial Day was completed and the water 
turned on, to Tommy’s great pride. 
Nor were the children obliged to spend all their pennies 
upon the work, for besides the actual money, they had 
earned something of more value—the confidence and co- 
operation of their own parents and of the neighbourhood. 
At first the work that Gray Lady had begun at Foxes 
Corners school was thought to be merely a passing fancy 
or a matter of sentiment only, but day by day many of 
those who were not only indifferent, but perhaps ag- 
gressive, saw that common sense went hand in hand 
with the common humanity that the Kind Hearts’ Club 
expressed. 
Flag Day, that year falling upon a Friday, was to be 
the last regular bird lesson for the Foxes Corners school. 
Now that the planting season had come, and the summer 
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