200 GAJME PRESERVERS AXD BIRD PRESERVERS. 



trees as the larch, would make some retm^n in 

 value for the ground they would occupy. They 

 would wonderfully improve the appearance of 

 the country. Immense tracts of land without a 

 tree or bush, however carefully cultivated, are 

 not our idea of an Enghsh landscape. 



But protect and plant for our birds as we 

 will, without food in winter they will never 

 become very numerous. They get through a 

 mild winter pretty well, but in a severe winter 

 ' they die by millions.' Perhaps nine-tenths of 

 the blackbirds and thrushes die. After one 

 severe winter, Mr. J. Eccarius noticed that 

 these birds and the robin had become nearly 

 extinct. 



And we let them die at our very doors of 

 hunger, and except to the poor little robin who 

 will come and ask om^ children to pity and 

 feed him sometimes, we never throw them a 

 scrap. 



Poor little creatures ! They must find their 



Sorrows, crown of sorrows, in remembering liappier things. 



