fifteen] happy animals 



here to sympathize and to help. This chapter 

 does not leave out the economics of the question, 

 but it goes one step farther, and undertakes to il- 

 lustrate our alliance with all living creatures — for 

 their sake, as well as our own. It believes in co- 

 operation to establish a happy world as firmly as 

 it believes in cooperation to secure better crops. 

 This is one chief opportunity in going back to coun- 

 try life — that we may go with beneficence, and not 

 with selfishness. Already, coincident with the ex- 

 odus, there has been a great increase of Audubon 

 Societies. We are at last able to stop the wearing 

 of birds and birds' plumage by women — a re- 

 form impossible so long as the city gauged our re- 

 lation to life and living things. 



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