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"0 no !" and the child philosophically shrugged her shoulders, 

 "I just waited until his back was turned and sneaked up and 

 watered the tree". 



One boy had no trees near his home, so he found a pointed 

 iron, went some distance down town and loosened the earth 

 around two hundred and fifty trees. 



Little Teddy Yadkowsky held up a contractor on a cement 

 pavement job until he threatened to call the police. Then the 



boy's face beamed with 

 genuine delight and he 

 said, "O, I wish you 

 would ! Then he would 

 tell you, too, that the city 

 demands an opening of 

 four square feet left 

 around all street trees". 

 The contractor suc- 

 cumbed to Young America, 

 late of Russia. 



One girl cared for 

 forty trees for ten weeks. 



A little boy of ten 

 years in a plaster cast in- 

 sisted on working with the 

 other boys to help the trees. 

 Camillo's postcard 

 saving a tree above grade speaks for itself, even to 



the unconscious preemptoriness of the request, "Prompt Answer". 

 He is one of the Shade Tree Protectors' most enthusiastic mem- 

 bers, the soul of courtesy at heart and a fine prospective citizen. 

 In his zeal for new members, Camillo made a sign upon a soap box 

 lid, climbed out of his third story tenement and tacked it on trie 

 front of the house : — "All children who want to be a member of 

 the Branch brook Shade Tree Commission may ask Camillo. 

 Top floor." Six new members were the result of this unique 

 notice. 



Newark, N. J. 

 (Prompt Answer.) 

 Dear Mrs. Corwin, 



The new members of the league are more interested in the work 

 than any old members of the league. They have been asking me 

 about the badge, because they have seen many violations, and the 

 people would not believe they were members of the club (without the 

 badge.) I am searching and searching every day to find a pointy iron 

 stick so that I can go down High Street and cultivate all of the trees. 



