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and his troubled little face is lifted up to the blue 

 dome of the sky as he says: " 'Our Father in 

 heaven, hallowed by thy name/ Dicky is dead, we 

 are planting him in the garden, so please, 'Our 

 Father in heaven, hallowed by thy name,' to keep 

 him from taking cold so he can sing to us like he 

 used to, when we come to heaven looking for him. 

 Amen." 



Why the difference in the effect of the death 

 of these two birds, looking so much alike, on this 

 family? The answer is not far to seek. In one 

 case, they had little knowledge and no affection. 

 In the other they had intimate knowledge and 

 great affection. After all, it is the love element 

 that we must depend upon to save the remnant 

 of vanishing wild birds. 



There is a profoundly philosophical statement 

 to the effect that "things seen were not made by 

 things that do appear." In other words, back 

 of the tangible thing before us, are unseen and 

 often remotely operating causes. In every life 

 are what are called red-letter days something 

 sharply defined, a new point of view, the instan- 

 taneous dominion of a strong emotion. Detach- 

 ments of gray mist are deploying across a hillside 

 in the early dawn of a May morning, after a 

 night of rain. The big guns of the storm clouds 

 had put on their barrage and their receding roar 

 could be heard across the lake to the southwest. 



