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B Y THE WA YSIDE 
pecker came and ate a lot ol bread, a 
Nuthatch came too, and two Juncos, and 
two English Sparrows. To-day lor the 
first time a Downy Woodpecker came. 
He came four times and stayed in the 
air, and the fifth time he sat on the shelf 
and ate the bread. All of the children 
were glad to see the birds. * 
Yours truly, 
Aged 11. 
Ruth Milligan, 
Gladstone, Ill., January 29, 1909. 
Dear Wayside: 
There are a good many Bluejays 
around here. They are very noisy birds. 
They are blue and white having a loud, 
shrill call with which they frighten the 
other birds away. One daw a Blackbird 
lit in the schoolyard and several Bluejays 
came and scolded it. 
Monday a bluejay flew to the ground, 
picked up something,flew back up in an 
evergreen tree and ate it. I didn’t see 
nor hear him with his ‘‘jay, jay, jay” to¬ 
day, because it is so cold and snowy. I 
nave never seen him tear down nests or 
kill other birds. 
Yours truly. 
Aged 12. Hazel Weir. 
dried flower stalks. I was glad to see a 
Robin in January. I saw a Goldfinch 
fly over the garden. Last night I heard 
a little Screech Owl. It was in a peach 
tree south of the house. I tried to get 
up close but it was scared and flew into 
a pine tree. 
Yours respectfully, 
Acre 11. Viola McClinton 
Gladstone, Ill., Jan. 29, 1909. 
Dear W ay side: 
To-day is a snowy, stormy day. I 
have just seen the Junco in the hedge 
and one female Downy Woodpecker 
which came to eat at the bone on our 
tree. Last Saturday it was 63 c at noon, 
a warm bright day. I saw about fifteen 
crested birds eating berries in our cedar 
trees. I hoped they were Cedar Wax- 
wings. I saw some ducks fly over head. 
Aoout eight o’clock in the morning I 
looked out of our kitchen window, and 
saw a Robin on the ground near some 
Spring Lane, Lake Forest, Feb. 25. 
Dear Wayside: 
This letter comes from a brave little 
working bird-lover and I am sending it 
to see if some of the Wayside children 
wont tell her how they work and what 
they do in their Societies. I think you 
could all help each other by doing this. 
Your friend, 
Mary Drummond. 
Miss Mary Dummond, 
Dear Friend: 
I thought I would write you a few 
lines. Well, we are not having very good 
success with our C. B. Club. The chil¬ 
dren do not take enough interest in it. 
Thev say, “If I am elected to any office I 
wont accept it,” and that discourages me. 
I believe I am going to make a failure ot 
it. I try to help them along all I know 
iiow. I try to encourage and coax them 
all I can. Do you know of any remedy 
or any way that I could make them take 
interest? I am trudging along all I can 
to help them. I tell them where to find 
information about birds but still they 
wont look after and tell anything. It 
seems as if I am the only one who takes 
anvthing of an interest. I will do all 1 
can to help them, but it seems of no use. 
We will have supper now and I must 
bring my letter to a close. 
Your loving friend, 
