CHAPTER XIV 



STUPIDITY STREET 



In an editorial having the caption; 'The Strong 

 Things in Life," the "Times-Picayune" of New 

 Orleans, quoted the following lines from the poems 

 of Ralph Hodgson and I know of nothing to be 

 found elsewhere that is a more remarkable epi- 

 tome of the whole question of "Bird Protection." 



"I saw with open eyes 

 Singing birds sweet 

 Sold in the shops 

 For people to eat, 

 Sold in the shops of 

 Stupidity Street. 



"I saw in a vision 

 The worm in the wheat, 

 And in the shops nothing 

 For people to eat; 

 Nothing for sale in 

 Stupidity Street." 



Here, in a nut shell, is the whole matter; it is 

 stupid to kill song birds for food, they are the 



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