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5. Words of Dedication. Pupils encircling fountain repeat, 

 "This fountain is placed here as an invitation to the birds to come 



and live with us, to make their nests in our trees, to play on our 

 lawns, and to drink from the cooling water of this fountain." 



6. The Birds' Prayer. Group of children as birds recite, 



"In view of the countless perils confronting us, of our helplessness 

 before them and the pain and sorrow which we suffer because of them, 

 we implore your help in creating a way of deliverance through better 

 knowledge of us and of our value, more thoughtfulness for us and 

 more sympathy with our weakness and our love of life." 



7. Dependence Day Pledge School. 



"I will not hunt or kill any living creature needlessly, nor destroy 

 any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life 

 and guard and protect all natural beauty on earth." 



8. Song, "America" School. 



Material for Bird Programs. 



Subjects for Bird Compositions and Discussions: 



'Some Birds I Know." "Bird Gardens or Orniries." 



'The American Eagle." "A Model Bird House." 



Tenants of the Trees." "Bird Boarders in Winter." 



'My Favorite Bird." "How to Assist Birds at Nesting 



'Helpful Bird Books." Time." 



'Bird Fountains." 



Selections Appropriate for Reading: 



Birds of Killingsworth Longfellow 



To a Waterfowl Bryant 



The Bobolinks* C. P. Cranch 



My Garden Acquaintance (Selections) J. R. Lowell 



The Bobolink Thos. Hill 



Spring in Carolina* Henry Timrod 



Flight of Wild Geese W. E. Channing 



In April Helen H. Jackson 



Nest Eggs R. L. Stevenson 



To a Swallow Jane W. Carlyle 



The Crow John Burroughs 



Selections Appropriate for Recitations: 



The Bluebird* Alex. Wilson 



The Winged Worshippers* Chas. Sprague 



My Catbird* W. H. Venable 



The Sandpiper* Celia Thaxter 



An Early Bluebird* Maurice Thompson 



The Veery * Henry Van Dyke 



The Mocking Bird* Frank Stanton 



The Scarlet Tanager* Mary A. Mason 



Robin's Secret* Katharine L. Bates 



The Meadow Lark* Hamlin Garland 



The O'Lincoln Family Wilson Flagg 



Robert of Lincoln Bryant 



Little Blue Pigeon Eugene Field 



Oh ! To Be a Robin Isabel Mackay 



All those selections marked by asterisks can be found in Stedman's 

 "An American Anthology." 



Bird Day Bibliography 



There is much valuable material in the "Humane Education Leaflet" 

 No. 2. Birds. Published at office of American Humane Society, Long- 

 wood Avenue, Boston, Mass. Price of the leaflets, postpaid, twelve for 

 five cents, or thirty cents per hundred. 



