shrubs or grassabout 
it, for behind such 
things a cat will 
crouch. 
I have spoken of 
a bird bath made of 
a granite boulder; 
we have two like 
this in Meriden, New 
Hampshire, and they 
are among the most 
satisfactory baths 
we have. The one 
in the Meriden Bird 
Club’s sanctuary, es- 
timated to weigh 
five tons, was lying 
where the glacier 
Such a pool at dusk may emit a flying spray from the wet plumage of left it on a hillside 
bathing bluebirds and song sparrows, while an exclusive phoebe is waiting 
on a branch above for a chance to cool off for the night by a few dashes rather more than a 
through the water. A concrete pool with tlowers planted about it, may mile away. For the 
be made an attractive feature of any garden 
benefit of those who 
may be done with concrete in this way, may have similar baths in view, I will 
especially if it is used in connection with | say that several teams of oxen were re- 
beautiful stones, pebbles, sand and shells. quired to move it, and that to haul it, 
Of course in the case of bird baths set it on a good foundation of stones, 
which are not raised well 
above the ground, great care 
must be taken that the little 
bathers are not pounced upon 
by cats, which would other- 
wise have the songsters at an 
unusual disadvantage. In 
the first place the birds are 
so engrossed with the joy of 
the bath that they are less 
rary than usual, and their 
feathers being wet they fly 
slowly and heavily, often 
close to the ground. If we 
cannot be sure about cats, we 
must either have the bath 
raised well above the ground 
on some object which a cat 
cannot climb, or else we must 
be content with a very plain 
bath out in the open, without 
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A bird bath in the Bird Sanctuary at Meriden, New Hamp- 
shire, is made in the natural hollow of a split granite boulder. 
The boulder has been placed upon a stone foundation and fitted 
with a pipe leading upward through a hole drilled in the boulder 
to give a continual supply of fresh water 
