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Their mouthpiece and leal instrument ' 



And servant, all love-eloquent. 

 I heard, when 'AH for love' the violins cried; 

 So, Nature calls through all her system wide, 

 'Give me thy love, man, so long denied.' " 



— From The Symphony, Sidney Lanier. 



No message could be more beautiful or more welcome than this. Not poets 

 and artists, but birds, streams, and the pure encircling air should call us into 

 the open. We may not have the opportunity to wander in the jungle by night, 

 or to climb lonely mountains or penetrate into the glooms of giant forests, but 

 we can get outdoors by day into parks or country, and we can learn to sleep 

 outdoors and feel the health-giving air with every breath we draw, and to 

 awaken every morning with gladness that we are looking out upon the sky and 

 rising sun, with no barriers of blinds and storm-windows between us and Nature. 

 When we realize every day that to live, to simply be alive, is joy, then work will 

 never mean drudgery or idleness and luxury seem things worth while. 



If Bird and Arbor Day can make you understand and feel this message, it 

 will be the happiest day of the year for you. — A. H. W. 



JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 

 For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XXVI. Correlated Studies: School Gardening and Reading 



In view of the fact that valuable suggestions are being received from time 

 to time, as to practical methods of conducting and encouraging bird- and 

 nature-study, it is perhaps a wise and timely interruption of the ordinary 

 Junior Audubon exercise to submit the following five methods for the consider- 

 ation of teachers and pupils. Each of these methods contains at least one idea 

 which can be worked out along local lines by any teacher with the aid of willing 

 pupils. Some of these methods are particularly applicable to Bird and Arbor 

 Day, for we have now somewhat outgrown the necessity of simply having 

 "exercises" to mark that day. When all days are Bird and Arbor Days, we 

 shall have gained a strong point in bird- and nature-study, and let it be hoped 

 no school will omit some sincere recognition of the day, this spring. 



Ways of Keeping Up Interest in Bird-Study 

 I. A BIRD-GAME FOR THE SCHOOLROOM 



During the years of 1914 and 1915, 1 have learned a great deal about birds. 

 We have an Audubon Society in our room which I think is very interesting. 

 We have about sixteen members, and we watch and study the birds very care- 



