BY THE WAYSIDE 
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another that their teeth grew all the time 
so that they had to gnaw tough bark to 
keep them down, and another that these 
gentle creatures could fight. This par¬ 
ticular family became almost friendly 
after awhile and would come to the door 
where they would nibble at the crisp 
greens thrown out to them, but if there 
was an unusual sound, away they would 
scurry down a great drain pipe which 
carried the water away from the drive¬ 
way, and as it was most always dry it 
made a safe retreat. In the dusk of the 
evening they could be seen playing 
frames on the lawns, and as the moon 
rose their little white tails looked like 
fairies dancing about. One day the 
guardian went out to teed them and there 
she found an old man with a gun and a 
hound hunting her pets in her own 
yard. She asked him what he wanted 
and he said that these rabbits would 
be a public nuisance if allowed to live, 
and he was trying to kill them be¬ 
fore they destroyed anyone’s gardens. 
As they lived in the heart of a manu¬ 
facturing town, and away from gardens 
and temptations, the old man was told 
to go and never come back. But by fall 
either the old man or other natural ene¬ 
mies were too much for Molly, for there 
was not a bunnie left to cheer our winter 
months, but we hope that next summer 
another family will come and that we 
can enforce our own game laws so that 
next Easter we can see for ourselves 
whether the rabbits bring us colored 
eggs. 
Wisconsin Prize Letter. 
Mazomanie, Wis., March 26. 
Dear Wayside: 
This spring when I was working I saw 
a pair of bluebirds. I watched them 
and they went into a box I had put on 
fence two years ago. Last year there 
were two pair built in it and raised their 
young. I put crumbs out for them. 
The male bluebird has a dark brown 
breast and a dark blue back. The female 
has a light brown breast and alight blue 
back. The bluebird likes to build in 
hollow trees, cans or a box that is set out 
for them. Yours truly, 
Aged 13. Richard Rovston. 
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Illinois Prize Letter. 
South Maywood, Ill. 
Dear Wayside: 
I saw a bluebird the twenty-first of 
March. He was sitting on a fence when 
I saw him. I went into the house and 
got some crumbs. I put the crumbs on 
a box. Then I put my hands behind 
my back and walked slowly towards it. 
He did not flv awav when I came up to 
him. I see him every morning at my 
window. I always put some crumbs on 
the box. The bluebird is seven inches 
long. Yours truly, 
Aged 10. Clara DeYonge. 
Mauston, Wisconsin, March 23, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
One morning as I was going to town 
from the country I saw a bluebird. Its 
back was blue, and its breast was a red¬ 
dish brown. The bird was flying from 
one side of the road to the other keeping 
ahead of me all the time. The same 
morning I saw a meadowlark, robin, 
bobolink and blackbird. This morning 
I saw 7 a kildeer and tw T o robins fighting. 
Yours trulv, 
Aged 13. Earl Stalker. 
