LE ONE, SOFT SPOT iy 
little demon would go away, and the Goddess of 
Pity would wake up! 
Then is there no way of saving them both, the 
poor birds and the poor women? Yes, there is a way, 
and it is you—the children—who are to find it out. 
Listen. It is so simple. All you have to do is to ask 
these women (these poor women) wo¢ to wear the hats 
that have feathers, that have birds’ lives in them, and 
they will not do so any more. They will listen to 
you. There is nobody else they would listen to, but 
they will to you—the children. Perhaps you think 
that funny. Listen and I will explain it. When 
the wicked little demon blew his powder called 
““ Apathy” into the hearts of the women, it froze 
them all up, as I have told you, but there was just 
one little spot in every one of their hearts that it 
was not able to freeze. That was the spot called 
Motherly Love, which every woman has in her heart, 
and which is the softest spot of all, if only a little 
child presses it—and especially if it is her own little 
child. So I want you—the little children who read 
this little book—to press that spot and to save the 
birds from being killed. Nobody can do it but you, 
nobody even can find that spot except you, but 
you will find it directly. And you are to press it in 
this way. Throw, each one of you, your arms 
round your mother’s neck, kiss her and ask her not 
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