HOW TO PRESERVE ALL BIRDS. 201 



Can this world, with its iron-boimcl icy covering 

 and its few short hours of daylight, be the same 

 place which they remember where they found 

 delicious food at every step, and where the long 

 summer day was not long enough to sing of 

 all. their happiness in ? 



They could bear the cold but not the hun- 

 ger in addition. So some evening, feehng fainter 

 than usual, they creep into some little sheltered 

 corner and die. Every garden should have its 

 table for the birds in winter, and children take 

 a dehght in watching them come each morning 

 for their daily meal. All the birds that stay 

 the winter with us can be kept ahve with such 

 a httle help from man. 



The cheapest rice, a httle Indian meal, and 

 a few pounds of suet or liver chopped up occa- 

 sionally in hard weather, will save the lives of 

 scores, and it is only thoughtlessness which 

 prevents these things being supplied, for but 

 few living in the country would grudge the 

 expense. 



