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refused to notice. Other fruits, one, two, and three, and 

 then some trees covered with beautiful red service berries, 

 were placed beside the path to tempt her, but she still went 

 on until suddenly she saw in front a patch of large ripe 

 strawberries, the first ever known. She stooped to gather 

 a few to eat, and as she picked them she chanced to turn 

 her face to the west, and at once the memory of her hus- 

 band came back to her and she found herself unable to go 

 on. She sat down, but the longer she waited the stronger 

 became her desire for her husband, and at last she gathered 

 a bunch of the finest berries and started back along the 

 path to give them to him. He met her kindly and they 

 went home together." 



Reproducing Bird Songs. 



Based on experiments conducted by Professor Sylvesta 

 D. Judd, a project is mooted among scientific men to se- 

 cure graphophone records of the songs of birds, the "roars 

 and cries of mammals and all available animal notes for 

 the purpose primarily of assisting nature study in Ameri- 

 can schools, says the Sahirday Eveyiing Post. Dr. Judd 

 inaugurated the work by securing the songs of several 

 species of birds. Meeting with some difficulty in obtain- 

 ing the recording cylinder necessary for his purpose, he 

 succeeded in manufacturing one himself and then patient- 

 ly taught a captive brown thrasher to sing into the horn. 

 At first the sound of the revolving apparatus disconcerted 

 the thrasher. Removing the recording style, the scientist 

 let the cylinder revolve indefinitely until the bird became 

 accustomed to the whir. After a little, the thrasher, 

 known also as the brown thrush, resumed its singing, and 

 then the graphophone was adjusted to secure a record. 

 From a near by hiding place the ornithologist controlled 



