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satisfactory as to size and form, the next step 

 is to approach the owner of the land on which 

 it lies, and secure his permission to remove it. 

 He is usually glad to have it removed, and if 

 he is the owner of oxen or heavy work horses 

 he appreciates the contract to haul it at his 

 convenience. 



The lovely bronze fountain executed by Mrs. 

 Louis Saint-Gaudens, and pictured here, is 

 another of the charming features of the Bird 

 Sanctuary at Meriden, and makes one realize 

 that with the sculptor as an assistant there is no 

 end to the artistic bird baths which may be 

 designed. This particular bath was made in 

 commemoration of the first presentation of 

 Percy Mackaye's bird masque, Sanctuary, and 

 was presented to the Meriden Bird Club by Helen 

 Foster Barnett of New York who witnessed the 

 play. It will be seen by the shallowness of 

 the basin at the top that my remarks about the 

 depth of the water apply just as much to a 

 formal work of art as to a granite boulder or an 

 earthenware saucer. The rule about surface also 

 applies, and the sculptoress purposely left the 

 surface of the inside of the basin slightly rough 

 that the feet of the little bathers might not slip., 

 Below the shallow bowl and in bas-relief may be 

 seen in procession the principal characters who 



