1 8 The Bird 



return sooner or later to earth for rest and food, and thus 

 all are at our mercy. 



Let us beware of needlessly destroying even one of 

 the lives so sublimely crowning the ages upon ages of 

 evolving; and let us put forth all our efforts to save a 

 threatened species from extinction; to give hearty aid 

 to the last few individuals pitifully struggling to avoid 

 absolute annihilation. 



The beauty and genius of a work of art may be recon- 

 ceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; 

 a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; 

 but when the last individual of a race of living beings 

 breathes no more, another heaven and another earth 

 must pass before such a one can be again. 



