A KINDERGARTEN EXPERIMENT. 



EADER, do you love birds? 

 I do not ask if you love to 

 see them on the lawn or in 

 the trees, for it is fair to 

 assume that all refined per- 

 sons love them in that way; 

 but have you ever become 

 really attached to them and 

 learned to look upon them 

 as companions ? If so, let 

 me hope you understood and appreciated their deli- 

 cacy, their sensitiveness, and their many tender qual- 

 ities, better than I once did.- 



I lived in a city 'flat'; still worse, it was a 

 bachelor's * flat.' You will naturally say that this 

 was a poor place for birds ; and I quite agree with 

 the sentiment. But if any earthly locality needs 

 cheering, demands beautifying and brightening, surely 

 it is the domicile of the man who lives alone. Feel- 

 ing something of this need, I secured as companions 



