TPIE MAKING OF BIBDCRAFT SANCTUARY 



THE POND AND AN OBSERVATION SHELTER 

 Photographed by Wilbur F. Smith 



kept the curves true, aud made the cutting of the trails a matter 

 of patience, a brush hook, stub scythe, pruuing-knife and shears 

 — that is, patience, plus the intelligence that knew just how 

 much of the fringed edge to spare. It was in the exercise of this 

 intelligence on the part of a man who had come as a day worker, 

 owing to the closing down of a shop in a nearby town, that ended 

 in the enlargement and altering of our whole plan of work for 

 Birdcraft Sanctuary. Having once set his foot on the trail, we 

 found not only that he understood what we wished to accom- 

 plish, but that he was a bird-man, a sportsman of field experi- 

 ence, and a taxidermist also. How this suggested new work 

 will be told later ; sufficient to say that, instead of the caretaker 



