FIFTEEN] HAPPY ANIMALS 
here to sympathize and to help. This chapter 
does not leave out the economics of the question, 
but it goes one step farther, and undertakes to il- 
lustrate our alliance with all living creatures — for 
their sake, as well as our own. It believes in co- 
operation to establish a happy world as firmly as 
it believes in cooperation to secure better crops. 
This is one chief opportunity in going back to coun- 
try life —that we may go with beneficence, and not 
with selfishness. Already, coincident with the ex- 
odus, there has been a great increase of Audubon 
Societies. We are at last able to stop the wearing 
of birds and birds’ plumage by women — a re- 
form impossible so long as the city gauged our re- 
lation to life and living things. 
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