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NATURE NOTES 
more names will be required before a meeting of those interested 
can be called. 
“ The public mind is at the present time taken up with the 
war now raging in South Africa, and rightly too ; but surely the 
humane ought to give a little thought to the war which is 
constantly being w'aged against the birds at home. We ought 
not to forget our duty to the dumb creation. 
“ I venture to make an appeal through your columns for 
donations to carry on the work of starting such a scheme. 
“ Ladies and gentlemen desirous of joining or helping us in 
any way are requested to communicate with me, when I shall be 
glad to furnish any information desired.” 
ARCADY. 
Canon Rawnsley writes, on March 12, “The starling woke me this morning 
with the cry of ‘ Arcady ! Arcady ! ’ and when I read of the battlefield of Drie- 
fontein the following little poem suggested itself. In Cumberland a man who was 
crying for death would say, ‘ If ah cud die ! ’ ” 
At dawn beneath a painless sky. 
With triple note remembered well, 
I hear the merry starlings tell 
Of “ Arcady,” of “ Arcady !” 
At dawn where wounded soldiers lie, 
I hear a voice remembered well. 
In accents of the Cumbrian fell, 
“ If ah cud die ! If ah cud die !” 
Oh, birds of happier destiny. 
For here is heaven, but there is hell. 
When shall sweet Peace return to dwell 
And all the world be Arcady ? 
NATURE NOTES WITH PENCIL AND CAMERA. 
By the Editor. 
IjN our last number, in reviewing “ A Book of the Fields 
and Woods,” attention was called to the beautiful 
specimens of the wood-engraver’s art with which that 
little work is illustrated. By the courtesy of the editor, 
Mr. J. P. Steele, we are now able to reproduce two of these. 
The first, “ The Nuns’ Burying-ground at Cobridge,” by 
Frederick Rhead, accompanies a poem by the artist, the two 
following verses of which explain his idea : — 
