A rain-pool bath among the rocks 



IN BERKSHIRE FIELDS 



LANDLORD TO THE BIRDS 



I WONDER if any reader of this chapter was 

 ever present when a state legislature considered 

 the question of licensing cats. If so, he must 

 have been impressed anew with several facts, one 

 of them being that in spite of all the information 

 disseminated by the ornithological and biological 

 bureaus of the Federal and state governments, and 

 by other ornithologists, regarding the economic 

 value of our common birds, the average man is still 

 blind to the importance of the subject. Of course, 

 one doesn't expect a state legislator to be swayed 

 by sentiment; one expects him, rather, to yield 

 to economic pressure! Yet when the question of 

 establishing a cat license, as we now have a dog 



