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BY THE WAYSIDE 
Maywood, Ill., March 25, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
The little bluebirds have a very pretty 
color. I saw the bluebird the twenty- 
first of March. When my mother was 
clearing the table off, a bluebird came 
up and looked in the window. When 
my mother saw them, she put some 
crumbs out for them to eat. The blue¬ 
bird is seven inches long. When the 
little bluebird is hatched, it is black. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 10. Ella Zeige. 
Mauston, Wis., March 23, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
As I was going out in the country Sat¬ 
urday, March 14th, to saw some wood, I 
was standing up in the wagon-box, and 
noticed some birds flying in front ol the 
horse. I looked again, and to my sur¬ 
prise I saw that they were bluebirds. 
The birds lit on a hitch-rack outside the 
Catholic cemetery. . .* . 
Yours truly, 
Henry Underwood. 
Maywood, Ill., March 25, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
I saw some bluebirds on our fence and 
I threw some crumbs out for them and 
they ate them all up. Then the next day 
they came again and I fed them with 
feed. Then they came at noon again, 
and drank water from the tub in our 
yard where the chickens drink. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 11. Edward Krotz. 
Weblake, Wis., May 1, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
Last night as I was coming from the 
barn I saw a little ground bird on our 
old table out of doors. I watched it 
until it flew on the woodpile. It stayed 
and chirped awhile, then it flew away. 
A little while after that I went into the 
house. As soon as I got into the house 
I looked out of the window. I saw one 
in an old oak tree in our yard. My 
brother found a little bird. Its wing 
was broken. He picked it up and car¬ 
ried it to school. We don’t know what 
its name is. Good-bye. 
Aged 10. Margurritte Marsh. 
Glendale, Wis., April 14, 1908. 
Dear Wayside: 
Last spring a pair of robins built their 
nest on the reach ofa wagon. One morn¬ 
ing when I looked into the nest I saw 
five blue eggs. I told the people who 
owned the wagon about the nest and 
they left the wagon there until the young 
birds were hatched. The next time I 
looked the mother bird was sitting on 
the nest and her mate brought her food. 
All of the eggs hatched and every time I 
went near after that the old birds would 
fly around me and try to scare me. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 11. Gladvs Hanev. 
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Mauston, Wis., March 24, 1908. 
Dear Wavside: 
As I was going to school this morning 
I saw two robins. They were sitting on 
the roof of a house. I watched them a 
little while. Pretty soon one of them 
flew away. He lit in a neighboring tree 
where he sat pruning his feathers. He 
was a large robin with a gravish-green 
back and a chestnut breast. In alittle 
while he called to his mate to come. 
When it heard the call it flew to the 
tree. 4 hen they flew away to another 
free. Yours truly, 
Frederick Denicke. 
