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Maywood, Ill., March 25, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
Last Saturday I saw a large bluebird. 
The bird’s back is all blue. I stood and 
looked at it. Then two robins came 
along and the bluebird flew to the front. 
Then I went out to watch it. It was eat- 
ing something. Just then a car came 
along and the bird flew awav. The blue¬ 
bird is about seven inches long. 
Yours trulv, 
Dan Rvan. 
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Mauston, Wis., March 2 3, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
One morning last week I heard the 
song of a dear robin. I could not see 
him, but I made up my mind to find 
him; and sure enough in the big linden 
tree back of our house was the robin. 
He was at the very tip-top of the tree. 
He had an olive-brown back and an un¬ 
commonly red breast. I hope they will 
build their nest in the tree. 
Yours trulv. 
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Aged 12. Mildred Tate. 
Maywood, III., March 25, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
I have seen fifteen bluebirds this year. 
We have some holes in our barn and the 
birds go in them. Every morning I see 
two bluebirds on our fence and I give 
them corn and wheat. Our cat wanted 
to catch one but I would not let him. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 10. Edgar H. Leonhardt. 
Mauston, Wis., March 23, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
As I was coming to school last Tues¬ 
day I saw two robins. One had a piece 
of grass in its mouth. I watched them 
and they lit on a post near by and began 
to chirp very loud. Their breasts were 
uncommonly bright and very pretty. 
Then they picked up the grass and flew 
away. So I walked on. But after I got 
a little way off I looked again and they 
were in a big oak tree. When I came 
home at noon I looked again and they 
were nowhere to be seen. 
One of the girls brought a kangaroo 
mouse to school. It has short fore legs 
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and long hind legs, so we can see that it 
must hop like a kangaroo. The bovs 
said when they see them in the woods 
they sit on their tails. Its nose is 
pointed very near like a bird’s beak. 
Clem Bradley looked at it through a 
magnifying glass and said that it had a 
pouch in which it carries its young. 
Yours sincerely, 
Aged 12. Irma Otto. 
