SCHALLEE AUDUBON SOCIETY, 
FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 
Founded June, 1897. 
^ Hobm Vit. 
BY lONE G. DANIELS. 
In the days of pagan Rome, Horace and Ovid refer with approval to feasts of 
song birds, including roast thrush and “ nightingales of monstrous price.” Vafo 
tells us that the epicure gratified his palate and his ear simultaneously, feasting up¬ 
on the delicate warblers, while others, unconscious of their coming doom, were 
discoursing, meanwhile, the most exqusite masic. The incident related in this story, 
occurring in our own midst, as it were, after a period of more than 2000 years, proves 
to us that with all our boasted civilization, remnants of savagery still exist. 
