ON TREES AND BIRDS. 



73 



Children, we must not scold and find fault because 

 things are not what they ought to be. The busy 

 people who have been building homes and making 

 America what it is had not the time to study out 

 all the beautiful lessons which we are trying to teach 

 you, and it is that wonderful little instrument, the 

 CAMERA, that makes it possible for you to learn 

 these lessons. A book on this subject, without photo- 

 graphs, would be dry reading for you, so dry you 

 probably would not read it. 



