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if you have a good club behind you than you 

 would be alone. 



It is the writer's belief that there should be a 

 bird club in every village, town, and city in the 

 country. In the larger cities, perhaps, there 

 should be more than one, and these might unite 

 in providing for our native birds in the public 

 parks and gardens. Similar clubs should be 

 started in colleges, private schools and acade- 

 mies, and where possible in the public school as 

 well. Such a club was started a few years ago 

 at Fay School, in Southborough, Massachusetts, 

 and the result has been most interesting. The 

 boys are reorganized at the beginning of each 

 school year, and they do enthusiastic, faithful 

 work for the birds not only while at school 

 but during the vacations. The writer recently 

 organized a similar club for the girls at Ferry 

 Hall, Lake Forest, Illinois. If each school will 

 do its small share, in ten years we shall have a 

 race of men and women who will know their 

 duty to our wild birds and how to perform 

 it. 



The organization of a school bird club is a 

 very simple matter and may safely be left to 

 any enthusiastic instructor. If the latter has 

 had no experience, however, the rest of this 

 chapter, devoted to the organization of clubs of 



