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SCHOOL BRANCH DEPARTMENT 
Every Wisconsin School Branch is required to subscribe for at least one copy of BY THE WAYSIDE 
Letters for this department should be written on only 
one side of the page, should give the name, age and ad¬ 
dress of the writer, and should be mailed by the first of 
the month: Illinois children sending to Miss Juliet Good¬ 
rich, 10 Astor St,, Chicago, Ill., and Wisconsin children 
to Miss Edna Edwards, Appleton, Wis. An honor badge 
will be awarded for each state every month, preference 
being given to letters about the bird study for the month 
(which is always on this page) and to original observa¬ 
tions. Any child who wins the honor badge twice will 
receive By the Wayside one year as a prize. 
The wren button, which is the badge of the Audubon 
Society, costs two cents and may be bought from Miss 
Juliet Goodrich or Miss Edwards 
Any Wisconsin School Branch may, without expense, 
have the use of the Gordon and Merrill Libraries of bird 
books, by applying to Miss Sophia Schaefer, Librarian, 
679 North street Appleton. 
A set of colored bird slides with a typewritten lecture 
may be rented from Prof. W. S. Marshall, 114 E. Gorham 
Street, Madison, Wis. 
Illinois Schools, may use. without expense, a library 
or a lecture with lantern slides, by applying to E. S. 
Adams, 439 Elm Street, Chicago. 
Last month we had no ‘‘Bird of the 
Month,” so I received few letters from 
my young friends, so this month I am 
going to give a subject in place of the 
usual bird. Please write to me under 
the title, “What We Have Done for the 
Protection of the Birds.” Tell me about 
your bird house, your bird bath tubs, or 
bird tables, or what you have done to 
prevent cruelty to birds. 
Chicago, Ill., April, 9, 1907. 
The Wayside: 
When some of us girls went to the 
park we saw many robins. When you 
go to the park you must be very still and 
if you wish to speak you must talk very 
low. Be careful how you walk and walk 
very slowly and softly. The other day 
I saw a red-headed wood-pecker. It had 
a red-head and was black and white on 
his wing. I have a great interest in 
studying about birds. In our yard we 
have some crushed corn which is fine 
I. and small and the birds come and eat 
the corn. Last year when I was going 
to the store there was a little boy who 
had a little bird. He was treating it 
very cruelly and I asked him for it, but 
he would not give it to me, so I gave 
five cents for it, although it was only a 
sparrow. The bird’s foot was hurt, so I 
took it home and put a bandage on it 
and in a few days, it began to chirp and 
to fly, so I went up on our roof and held 
the bird in my hand and it looked at 
me and chirped and flew away where 
some other sparrows were. I suppose 
that one of the other sparrows was his 
mother or father. 
Respectfully, 
Emilv Larson. 
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Chicago, Ill., April. 11, 1907. 
Dear Wavside: 
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I go to the Chase school and I am in 
room five. Our room has formed into 
bird clubs. There are seven clubs. 
The names of the clubs are American 
Eagle, Wren, Grackle, Goldfinch, Oriole, 
Tanager and Indigo Bunting. All the 
members of the clubs have bought rib¬ 
bons. The color of the ribbons is the 
color of their bird. For instance the 
American eagle is red, white and blue. 
The Goldfinch is vellow and black. We 
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have cards and the}'- are thirteen bv 
nineteen. We paste the picture of our 
bird on the card. We paste a small 
paper with the names of the members 
and the president. We paste a larger 
paper on the card. The large paper is 
for the birds we have seen. We meet at 
certain nlaces after school and on Satur- 
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days and go to the park to study the 
birds. When we come from the park we 
