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Tell them that you are about to organize a 

 local bird club and ask their kind advice and 

 assistance. Listen carefully to all advice given 

 by older people or by those who have had more 

 experience than you have had, but if there is no 

 bird club in your town let no one dissuade you 

 from organizing one. You have a great opportu- 

 nity; don't let it pass. 



With the assistance of your friends, few or 

 many as the case may be, prepare to call a 

 meeting for the purpose of organizing the club. 

 Arrange to have the meeting held in some 

 convenient place; if possible one likely to prove 

 acceptable to almost everybody in the com- 

 munity. If you have a town hall, that may be 

 the best place; the public library may have 

 a suitable hall, or the Board of Education will 

 probably be glad to allow you to use a school 

 assembly room. A church makes a very satis- 

 factory meeting place in a town where the people 

 are broad-minded and where a large number 

 will not refuse to attend simply because they 

 don't belong to that church. It makes little 

 difference where the meeting is held, provided 

 only that the right spirit prevails. For example : 



The Meriden (N. H.) Bird Club was or- 

 ganized in the chapel of the local Academy; 

 the Alma (Michigan) Bird Club, in the High 



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