inch hole in the side and scooping it out. It made a 

 fine home for this " teenie weenie " family. A duck 

 shaped one was patterned into a palace, and 

 another shaped ju^ like a bishop's mitre was to be 

 fashioned into something the birds would like, 

 and make use of. Then the big " dipper "-oh, 

 but its uses were manifold! And Elizabeth made a 

 fine yellow cornmeal cake and baked it very dry 

 and hard in the oven of her toy elecftric stove, then 

 crumbled it well and filled the bowl of the dipper 

 very full. And Vicflor a youthful but able carpen- 

 ter of ten years, covered the opening with a bit of 

 copper wire window screening, rounded out a 

 smooth-edged little feeding hole and superintend- 

 ed its placing in a tree where the birds could reach 

 in with their bills for the cornmeal cake, but the 

 squirrels and cats and mice could not. Oh! no the 

 little feeding hole was too small except for the 

 tinie^ birds. Besides it was set up side down, and 

 because of this, the crumbled meal cake was 

 always pressing again^ the feeding hole where 

 they could get at it with ease. 

 ^ A bottle shaped gourd was to have a square 

 door made in its side, to serve as a cosey renting 

 box, so popular with the lazy birds, and a number 

 were hung up for them, after Vidlor made an 

 opening exacftly the size of a quarter. Vicftor was 

 mo^ insistent that these nesting gourds were 

 hung '* clear " or rather where no limb or spur 

 was near enough for ** other creatures to get in." 

 He also fashioned with the aid of his " tool che^ " 

 houses for the bluebirds, the tree swallows, etc. 

 ^ Before returning to town all of the children had 

 a hand in the con^tru(5tion of a bird table, a 

 mighty clever, comfortable habitation or, as they 

 called it, " The Birds' Winter Club," where they 

 could not only find shelter, but food as well, at a 



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