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nesting-sites may serve this purpose, or a more 

 open box with back toward the storms may be 

 placed in some sheltered spot. 



And while the children are being encouraged 

 to feed the birds at home, a lunch-counter should 

 be provided in the school-yard if the conditions 

 will allow it. The following suggestions regard- 

 ing such a table are given by Mrs. M. 0. Wright 

 in « A Year With the Birds " : — 



" A SCHOOL-TARD KESTAURANT 



" As you have already learned, some birds eat 

 insects and others seed-foods; or, to put it in 

 another way, some birds prefer meat and some 

 bread ; so if you wish to suit all kinds you must 

 feed them with sandwiches, made of both bread 

 and meat. 



" * Sandwiches for birds ! — how foolish ! ' I 

 hear some one say. Stop and think a moment, and 

 you will see that it is merely a way of expressing, 

 a figure of speech, as it is called. 



" Give the birds the material, crumbs, cracked 

 corn, hayloft sweepings, bits of bacon, suet, or 

 bones that have some rags of meat attached, and 

 they will make their own sandwiches, each one to 

 his taste. 



"If this food is merely scattered upon the 



