126 THE FALL OF THE YEAR 



Monthly for August, 1909. Read to them Audubon's account of the 

 wild goose, in his " Birds." 



FOR THE PUPIL 



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followed through our open windows: "followed" how? Must one 

 have wings or a flying-machine in order to " follow " the wild 

 geese ? 



Round and dim swung the earth below us. . . . : What is the pic- 

 ture ? It is seen from what point of view ? 



the call to fly, fly, fly : Did you ever feel the call to fly ? Ever 

 wish you had wings ? Ever start and run as Mowgli did, or long 

 to get up and go somewhere as the pilgrims did in the Canter- 

 bury Tales ? 



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in our hands to preserve : Do you belong to the Audubon Society, 

 to the " Grange," or to any of the organizations that are trying 

 to protect and preserve the birds ? And are you doing all you can 

 in your neighborhood to protect them ? 



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not in a heap of carcasses, the dead and bloody weight of mere meat : 

 We may be hunters by instinct; we may love the chase, and we 

 may like to kill things. But do you think that means we ought to, 

 or that we any longer may, kill things ? No ; bird life has become 

 so scarce that even if we do want to, it is now our duty to give 

 over such sport in the larger interests of the whole country, and 

 try to find a higher, finer 'kind of pleasure, as we can in trying 

 to photograph, or " shoot " with the camera, a bird, getting an 

 interesting picture in place of a dead body. 



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the mated pairs of the birds have flocked together : In domestic 

 geese the mated pairs often live together for life; and among the 

 wild geese this, doubtless, is often true. 



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may 1 be awake to hear you : In what sense " awake " ? 



The wild geese are passing southward : the end of the autumn, 



the sign that winter is here. 



