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BY THE WAYSIDE 
the wrens’ nest and took the little wrens 
out of the nest and ate them. The blue' jay 
is not a very tame bird. The other day there 
were two blue jays sitting upon the limb of 
an apple tree. One of the birds would fly 
up to the other and make a funny noise, and 
then it would pick the tree to get out the 
worms, then fly into the tree again. At first 
1 thought they were fighting, but I watched 
them a while and I found one of them was 
feeding the other. 
Lelia Tribble, 
Aged 13. Alton, III 
The Wren. 
Last summer I thought I would attract the 
biids to my home, so I built a little house. 
Soon after I had it built, my uncle came in 
from the country and wanted me to go out 
with him. I went and stayed about a week. 
When I came home, I found a wren buildino- 
a nest in the house. I watched them for a 
long time. The boys told why they came to 
my house. They had built a nest before and 
just when the mother bird was ready to sit 
on the eggs, the nest was robbed and the 
birds built a new nest in my house. The 
t an y eggs for it was get- 
ting pretty late in the year, so they went 
south. I hope they will come again this year, 
x belong to the Audubon society and am very 
thankful if I can protect the birds. 
Perry Roudebush, 
Aged 12. Appleton, Wis. 
Portage, Wis. 
Dear Wayside: 
Last winter I scattered crumbs in front of 
our house, and some blue jays came and gath- 
eied them, so this winter I hung out some 
suet and scattered some bread crumbs too. 
Some little cedar birds, come every day and 
gather them, but some times blue-jays 
chase them away. Blue-jays and Butcher¬ 
birds are very cruel to birds smaller than 
themselves. There was a nest of Butcher¬ 
birds near our house, and one day my little 
canary bird was out on the porch' in his cage, 
when all at once we heard a fluttering and 
M'e just got out in time to save our bird for 
a butcher-bird had got him around the neck 
and v ould have killed him in a short time 
if we had not come to the rescue. 
Aged 13. Mae McIntyre. 
Maywood, Til. 
Nov. 30th, 1904. 
Dear Wayside: 
there is a little place on the front porch. 
- little sparrow sleeps there at night all win- 
tei. Now there is another little bird comes 
and sleeps there now too. Every winter they 
come and sleep there. Good bye. 
Aged 10. Agnes Hector. 
The Robin. 
May is the month' when birds come and build 
their nests, and flowers bloom, and all fruit 
tiees are in blossom. In our neighbor’s yard 
two robins build their nests in a pear tree. 
I washed my dollies’ clothes and hung them 
out to dry, and a little robin came and took 
some of the clothes to buld its nest with. 
And in course of a little while it had some 
baby robins in its nest, which pleased me very 
much. Every morning I threw out some 
ciumbs for the mother robin to feed her baby 
birds, and they grew to be big birds, and they 
flew away and that was the last I saw of 
them. 
Moreland Marie Rintoul,. 
A g ed 8 - Alton, HI. 
The Bluebird. 
About three years ago we put out a bird- 
house, and last year we put out two more 
and every year we have many bluebirds. My 
sister and 1 watch all the birds we see. This 
year the bluebird had to fight a sparrow to get 
the box. About two weeks ago the bluebird 
kept flying against our neighbor’s window. 
Now what do you think it wanted there? 
Did it see itself or something in the window? 
I think the bluebird is so pretty. He is 
all blue with only a litle brown on his 
bieast. One winter the bluebird stayed 
here all winter. 
Adolph K. Wuerker. 
A g ed 8. Alton, Ill. 
Kilbourn, Wis., Jan. 21, 1905. 
Dear W r ayside: 
As I was coming from school the other 
night, I heard a little peeping- sound. I look¬ 
ed around and saw on the trunk of a tree' 
a bird with a white breast, and quite a long- 
slim beak. Its back was a grayish blue and 
white. I knew by a picture I had seen that 
it was the White Breasted Nuthatch. The 
bird was runing up and down the tree look¬ 
ing for food. Then it flew to another tree 
