suit and count broken limbs and bloody 

 noses as badges of honor. Take my ad- 

 vice. Buy a pigskin football and enter 

 at once upon the path of glory." 



It is hardly necessary to add that this 

 sale, and many like it, were made dur- 

 ing the progress of the Fair. 



The booth of the wild birds was the 

 most beautiful one in the whole display. 

 It was gotten up to represent a forest 

 glade, with shadowy aisles and leafy re- 

 treats. Its carpet was made of grasses 

 and moss and ferns and flowers. A lit- 

 tle fountain cast its waters into a tiny 

 pool, where birds dipped their wings 

 or quenched their thirst. Dainty nests 

 were built in many curious ways, some 

 hanging from the branches, others hid- 

 ing beneath the grasses or sheltered by 

 the leaves. A myriad of brilliant birds 

 flitted through this miniature paradise, 

 the bluebird, the redbird, the orange and 

 black oriole, the scarlet tanager, golden 

 canaries and many others, making up a 

 flashing bouquet of color. 



Then there were solos, and duets, and 

 grand concerts, when thrush and lark 

 and canary and redbird and warbler 

 joined their voices in a great gush of 

 melody through which ran the liquid 

 trills and cadenzas of mocking-bird and 

 nightingale. The quail piped his ''Bob 

 White" from the ferns and grasses ; and 

 the* parrot — as clown of the occasion — 

 imitated the human voice in comically 

 jerky efforts. 



Along the front of the booth were dis- 

 played rows of bottles filled with every 

 imaginable kind of bug and worm which 

 the industrious birds had gathered from 

 orchards and fields, and which were ex- 

 hibited as proof of the invaluable aid 

 which the birds give to man. 



The cattle display was next on the 

 list — a notable one, and attractive to ev- 

 ery man and woman. There were noble 

 representatives from every breed of cat- 

 tle, with the most beautiful, gentle-eyed 

 calves that were ever seen. There was a 

 tempting display of great glass jars of 

 rich milk and yellpw cream, huge cheeses 

 and g-olden butter balls, daintily molded 

 curds and glasses of whev. There was 

 a free tank of delicious iced buttermilk, 

 which was continually surrounded by a 

 thirsty crowd who drank as if they had 

 never tasted buttermilk before. 



Then there were countless varieties of 

 fancy articles made from, horn and bone, 

 pots of glue, cans of neatsfoot oil, and 

 leather goods of every possible descrip- 

 tion. 



There was dressed beef, and jerked 

 beef, and dried beef, and potted and 

 canned and corned and deviled and 

 roasted. There was oxtail soup, and 

 blood pudding, and cakes of suet, and 

 stacks of tallow candles. There were 

 hides tanned into soft carriage robes and 

 rugs ; there were bottles of rennet tab- 

 lets; there were fancy colored bladders, 

 and bunches of shoestrings. In short, 

 the articles contained m this display 

 were beyond enumeration in a short ac- 

 count like this. 



The dogs came next with a wonderful 

 display of fancy breeds, of trick dogs 

 and trained dogs, of dogs little and big, 

 varying from the shaggy Eskimoi to the 

 skinny little hairless Mexican, and from 

 the huge St. Bernard to the tiny terrier. 

 The Newfoundlands gave a life-saving 

 exhibition every day, wherein monkeys 

 dressed as people were rescued from, the 

 water or from buildings supposed to be 

 on fire. 



The St. Bernards dragged frozen trrtv- 

 eler monkeys from snowbanks of cot- 

 ton and carried them on their backs to 

 places of safety. 



Cute puppies and clumsy pijppies went 

 through their antics for the amusement 

 of the children and rolled unconcern- 

 edly over beautiful carriage rugs which 

 were labeled ''Japanese Wolfskin." 



The sheep and goats had a booth to- 

 gether, wherein was a marvelous dis- 

 play of wools and woolen goods, yarns, 

 pelts, angora furs, kid gloves, kid shoes, 

 rugs, carpets and blankets. 



There were ropes of goats' hair which 

 water could not destroy, and wigs which 

 were destined to cover the heads of 

 learned judges and barristers. 



There was a wonderful red tally-ho 

 coach, drawn by four snow-white goats 

 driven by a monkey dressed as a coach- 

 man, which made the circuit of the Fair 

 grounds every afternoon, while monkey 

 passengers made the air lively and 

 cleared the way by the loud notes of 

 their tin horns. This exhibition set the 

 children wild, and parents were daily 



