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BY THE WAYSIDE, 
that bird and it were I and would shoot me, 
how would I l;ke it'? ' I think you wouldn t 
like it a bit and neither does the bird. 
Mildred A. Dixon, age 13. 
Wisconsin Prize Letter. 
Hammond. 
Dear Wayside: —I think the house wren is 
a very tame bird. Its tail looks very funny. 
One time Papa hung his coat in a shanty near 
our house, and the bird built his nest in it. 
1 saw the bird a few days before carrying 
sticks and straws into the pocket inside the 
coat. 1 did not know what his name was, 
because 1 was a little bit of a tot. One day 
when Papa put this coat on the bird tried to 
get out but it couldn’t. Pretty soon it began 
to squeak and he let it out. The nest had 
young in it, and so he put it back until the 
birds left the nest. This story tells that it 
is very brave. 
Willie Cooper, age 11. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
Dear Mrs. Peckiiam: —I thought that you 
would like to hear of the work we do in this 
city. I am a member of School No. 32, Audu¬ 
bon Society. The members are pupils of 
School No. 32. The society was organized in 
1901. Our present officers are Ralph Elvin, 
president, and Marguerite Elvin, secretary. 
Every two weeks we have a meeting. We take 
up a bird and discuss it. Several children have 
papers on the bird, its description, habits, etc., 
beiim discussed. Then different children are 
called upon for personal observations on the 
bird. We have a bird bulletin upon which 
we put clippings about birds. It was made 
and tastefully decorated by members of the 
societv. We have already had one lecture on 
birds by Mr. Woolen. In a short time we will 
have a lecture by Mr. Kellogg. We have a 
martin box in the school yard. One day at 
recess everybody was startled to hear some 
martins singing. Soon we saw two beautiful 
purple martins going into our bird box. The 
box has sixteen rooms, and last year all were 
filled. 
Our school takes the paper “By the Wayside.” 
We like it verv much, and it was through it 
that I happened to write to you. I also hope 
that we can establish a correspondence between 
cur Audubon societv and one or more in Wis- 
eonsin, 
Jacob Kiser, age 12. 
Birds In Their Relations 
TV\ R y CLARENCE M. WEED 
1 U 1*1X111 * and NED DEARBORN. 
HIS book is the outgrowth of twenty years of study and experience, and deals, 
it is believed, more fully and specifically with birds in their economic relations 
than any previous publication. It has been written from a knowledge obtained 
at first hand of birds and their habits, and of the plant world and insect world as 
they relate to the same. Professor Weed is a specialist in entomology, and is 
connected with the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
Arts, and Dr. Dearborn is in the Department of Birds, Field Columbian Museum. 
The volume is particularly notable for its collation of a large amount of the 
most recent information upon phases of bird life, which is to be found elsewhere 
only in scattered reports and periodicals. 
Accurately and lavish'y illustrated with full page pla'es 
and drawings in the text. 8vo. cloth. $2.50; postpaid, 
$ 2.65 
publishers, J. fi. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. 
