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BY THE WAYSIDE 
Maywood, III., March 25, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
I have not seen a bluebird as yet this 
year. I am going to put out a birds’ 
house and I hope it will be tenanted 
bv either the bluebirds or robins. The 
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little sparrow is such a cross little bird, 
that I do hope they will not claim it. 
The bluebird is very pretty and I shall 
surely study it as soon as I get a chance. 
I have seen quite a few robins though. 
They seem to be making a nest some¬ 
where about our yard for they make 
such a chattering and fly about the trees 
so. Very sincerely yours, 
Aged 12. Margaret Gorham. 
Mazomanie, Wis., March 26, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
One day as I was going home for din¬ 
ner I saw five or six bluebirds sitting up 
in the top of the tree. Its breast is kind 
of brownish and its back is all blue. It 
is a very pretty bird and a pretty singer. 
The other morning when I was just get¬ 
ting up I heard two birds singing. I 
went to the window and out in the tree 
I saw a bluebird and a robin. Every 
morning just before I get up a robin 
comes and begins to sing so sweetly. It 
wakes me up every morning. 
From your friend, 
Aged 11. Edna Sharratt. 
Mauston, Wis., March 23, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
Last Sunday while I was minnowing 
I saw a meadowlark on one of the tele¬ 
phone wires down by the stock-yards. 
He was singing something I never heard 
before. I went down the track and 
when I came back there was one singing 
off a ways from the stock-yards. That is 
the first bird I have seen this year that 
does not stay with us all winter. 
Yours truly, 
Clinton Wilson. 
Mazomanie, Wis., . r. 26, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
I will tell you my experien e about 
robins. Last year there were seven rob¬ 
ins’ nests in our vard. I would see them 
pick up grass that we had cut down. 
They would fly to a tree and I would go 
and tell my brother and mother. Some¬ 
times I would climb to the nest to see 
how many eggs there were. They would 
fly at me trying to drive me down but I 
would not touch them. I watched them 
sit on the four blue eggs. After a while 
the nest was full of little birds. The 
birds grew very fast and flew away. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 11. Stanley Johnson. 
Mauston, Wis., March 23, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
Saturday, the 7th of March, as a few 
boys and I were walking down the track 
we saw three meadow larks sitting on a 
fence. We did not go very far after that 
when we saw a bluebird sitting on a 
stump. We went on and soon came to 
a creek. We looked into the water and 
saw some minnows swimming in the 
water. We went home and got ; c malJ 
minnow net and went catching minnows 
in the afternoon. 
Yours truly, 
Bennie Lutz 
