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Address communic.itions for this department to 



Meg Merrythought, 156 Waterville Street, 

 Waterbury, Ct. 



My Dear Young Folks: 



You will agree with one of our boys who writes: "It is lucky the 

 birds went south in the fall, because it is ten below zero."- Who of 

 you will tell me why the birds take the long perilous journey north and 

 south each year. When they travel, how they know the way, and if 

 they follow the same route each year. Don't you think it is 

 wonderful that these frail gay little sprites cover these long distances 

 twice every year with so few mishaps? To be sure some fall out by 

 the way, some i^erish against the great lights which have been placed 

 as warnings to mariners, but the large majority of them flit back and 

 forth, season after season to their summer and winter homes. We 

 have but two names to grace the Roll of Honor this month, perhaps 

 those were pretty hard puzzles, and perhaps you will find those given 

 this month as hard, but do not hesitate to send your answers, even 

 though you do not solve every puzzle. 



Cordially Your Friend, 



Meg Merrythought. 



ANSWERS TO JANUARY PUZZLES. 



What is his name? Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Winter Enigma, Snow 

 Bunting, Northern Shrike. You will find the quotation given last 

 month in the bible— Prov. 1, 17; Eccl. 10, 20; Job. 39, 13-18. 



ROLL OF HONOR:— Stafford Francis, Exeter, N. H. 

 ren, Cabot, Vt. 



FROM OUR MAIL BAG. 



Edna War- 



You would have laughed to see some Hummingbirds this summer. 

 I lay in the hammock, and back and forth went two over me fretting 



