270 What Birds Have Done With Me 



partner in all legal firms having anything to do 

 with bird protection, and William Hornaday, re- 

 incarnation of General Grant, the live wire of the 

 National Museum of Natural History, whose 

 "Vanishing Wild Life" has done more than all 

 other writings combined to reveal the brink of the 

 pit over which bird life trembles. His book, a 

 paper automatic, has done more to silence ma- 

 chine guns in the hands of sportsmen than an- 

 other man might have done with a bird cannon. 

 At a game warden school, held in Madison, Wis- 

 consin, I know to my certain knowledge, that two 

 thirds of the Game Wardens joined the Audubon 

 Society and arranged to purchase "Our Vanishing 

 Wild Life" as fixed ammunition to be carried in 

 their kits. The very best letter ever written me 

 was received, soon after that school, from one of 

 the wardens, full of enthusiasm and anxious to do 

 "something for the little birds." The letter was 

 addressed to "The Birds' Attorney" and signed 

 "John Eagan, your Office Boy." 



The unknown pathway led to a lecture field that 

 covered much of Wisconsin and part of Missis- 

 sippi, and articles on birds for the public press and 

 letters without end. Among bird workers in Wis- 

 consin, Prof. A. H. Burrill and E. A. Cleasby de- 

 serve special mention. Wisconsin bird-lovers can 

 never pay the debt they owe these splendid work- 

 ers, who are both out of the State and whose 



