BY THE WAYSIDE. 
A copy of Chapman’s Color Key is given to 
William Schneider, 415 N. 12th St., LaCrosse, 
as a prize for winning the honor badge twice. 
Secretary’s Letter. 
My Dear Children : I am going to leave 
you a legacy of a few sayings which will serve 
as mottoes for your Audubon Societies. 
Bird-Lore’s motto is bright and brief, and 
very suitable for girls and boys: “A bird in 
the bush is worth two in the hand.” 
Ask your teachers to read you Wordsworth’s 
touching story of Hart-Leap Well, the place 
that was accursed because of the cruel death of 
the Hart. 
“The Being, that is in the clouds and air, 
That is in the green leaves among the groves, 
Maintains a deep and reverential care 
For the unoffending creatures whom he loves. 
“This Beast not unobserved by Nature fell; 
His death was mourned by sympathy divine. 
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“One lesson, Shepherd, let us two divide, 
Taught both by what she shows, and what 
conceals; 
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride 
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.” 
I commend to you the closing lines. 
Perhaps you are tired of the lesson I have 
given you so often from strong, tender-hearted 
John Ruskin—the man who gave up his own 
fortune that other men might lead happier 
and better lives—but you must listen to it 
once more: “Do not kill or hurt any living 
creature needlessly, but strive to save and com¬ 
fort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all 
natural beauty upon earth.” You see this 
means not only birds, but the bushes that 
grow along the roadside, trees with their grate¬ 
ful shade, wild flowers and little ferns in the 
woods, and gay little spiders that lead their 
happy and innocent lives on branch and blos¬ 
som. 
And here is Coleridge’s—the best known, best 
loved and most beautiful of all: 
“He prayeth well who loveth well 
Both man and bird and beast; 
He prayeth best who loveth best 
All things both great and small, 
For the dear God who loveth us, 
He made and loveth all.” 
Good-bye and God speed! 
Elizabeth G. Peckham. 
Wisconsin Prize Letter. 
Dear Wayside: Last winter I was out 
doors playing in the snow and I found a poor 
little robin in the snow. I took it up and ex¬ 
amined it and found it had been shot by some 
ci uel hunters. There are not half as many 
birds now as there used to be. It is a shame 
when God made the pretty little creatures to 
stay on earth to make the world beautiful and 
more cheerful. 
I think the nicest kinds of birds are the 
robin, swallows, meadow lark, ground spar¬ 
rows, bob-o-link, and woodpecker. 
The woodpecker is a very useful bird because 
he takes the worms from the trees and bushes. 
The crows are useful in, the fields but the 
farmers claim they do harm and the sparrows 
too, but they have to have some place to make 
their nest. 
There are thousands and thousands of birds’ 
eggs taken every year. People now-a-days have 
not much sense. 
Yorkville. Gerty Peterson. 
Illinois Prize Letter. 
Tinley Park. 
Dear Wayside: T saw a herring gull once. 
He. was fljdng over the water near our school. 
He had big wings. He had a big bill. He had 
big legs. This is a white bird. I saw him 
catching a fish. 
Eddie Bauer. 
Dear Wayside: —I saw a flock of jay birds. 
I saw a chickadee yesterday. I saw a pewee 
Friday. I saw a catbird and a woodpecker to¬ 
day. I saw a robin the other day. I saw a flock 
of crows Thursday. I saw five quails Tuesday. 
Clarence Sutton, age 8. 
Neeedah. 
Illinois has issued an Arbor and Bird Day 
Annual. 
