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feature of the Club's work — each monthly issue should be a 
reminder to each reader of all that has been written above — war 
times, pre-war times or post-war times, if all be left to your 
officers, our success can only be partial. If all take a part and 
unitedly co-operate the result will be a live society in every feat- 
ure of its work. Shall this be so ? 
More space has been occupied than can well be spared by 
the above, but the matter is an important one — whatever " the 
times " and they are difificult enough, the outlook is most hope- 
ful for success — our chief difficulties are caused by members' 
slackness ! The failure of members to do their part must act, to 
a greater or lesser degree, unfavourably upon the society, and, 
we earnestly commend the above to the consideration of our 
members — the future of the Club is what you make it, there can 
be no standing still, it will either be progressive or retrogressive. 
The year marks a new era in our history, for the present 
issue is the first number of Vol. I. of a fresh series (Series III.), 
and we trust that one and all will do their part, that it will sur- 
pass in general merit and practical interest any that have pre- 
ceded it. 
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CONGRATULATIONS TO 
Lt. L. F. Lovell-Keays, who has been gazetted Captain. 
Capt. E. C. Sprawson, who has been awarded the Military Cross 
for distinguished service. 
-C^^-A-A 
Correspondence. 
A LONG-LIVED NIGHTINGALE. 
Sir, — At the request of our esteemed Editor. I am sending- these few 
notes on my old nightingale, "' Brownie," who, if he hve till next May will 
have reached the age of ten years, nine of whicli he has spent with me. I 
obtained him in May, 1909, adult and a glorious songster. He has won many 
first and third prizes at the big shows ; his last appearance was at the Horti- 
cultural Hall where he was first in a large class. Since then he has developed 
a stiff joint and no longer sings much ; however, I hope to get him out again 
this next spring in a garden-aviary, where, for many years, people used to 
come and listen to him from the road outside the garden. He always spent 
the winter indoors ; is extremely tame and perfect in feather ; is fed on " Life " 
and insects; has a bath daily and a fly round the room, to which I attribute 
his keeping in such good health. 
I certainly advise anyone who wants a tame pet bird and a songster, to 
