protective coloration and the Ingenuity of birds 

 In their nest building. 



Glib I This In a way leads directly into your recent 



writing activities. After having been an editor 

 for several 3rears, I know you left the publishing 

 world. Did you try writing during that time? 



Cogglnat No, I didn't try to write imtil rattier a few years 

 ago. 



Glib: What made you decide to try to be a writer? 



Cogginat I don*t know, except that 1 vaa always interested 

 In writing and after a while I had the tine to do 

 U. 



One time I was invited to speak at a dinner 

 meeting given by the readers of the Nation . It was 

 long befoz*e I was married to my present wife who had 

 always urged me to speak and write. She had been 

 on the dinner committee and I auapect had persuaded 

 them to invite ne. 



My subject was "Bating for Causes." It was a 

 satirical little account of the many causes I had 

 bolstered up by eating for them: the ataznrlng 

 Armenians, the famished Irish, the destitute 

 Chinese, oppressed labor , and so on. Many people 



