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BY THE WAYSIDE 
BY THE WAYSIDE 
Published on the tenth of each month except 
July and August. 
The official organ of the Wisconsin, Illinois and 
Michigan Audubon Societies. 
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All communications should be sent to Roland E. 
Kremers, 1720 Vilas St., Madison, Wis. 
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In Memoriam 
Before me there lies the dead body 
of a robin ; some cat has just chewed 
its head off. No more will my robin 
eat the angle-worms as I spade in my 
garden! No more will he run over my 
lawn, catching insects and worms! No 
more will lie sing to his mate and to 
me in those beautiful hours of dawn. 
His once graceful form is now a re¬ 
pulsive bleeding mass of flesh and feath¬ 
ers. But where is the cat? Its cruel 
appetite satisfied it has run back home, 
for it is someone's pet! In its mis¬ 
tress’ laj) it lies purring gently as it 
is stroked. Contented by its mistress' 
stroking? No! by the meal of the 
Wrrm flesh and blood of the robin! 
When Charles Darwin was visiting 
the country house of a friend the two 
boys of the family thought they would 
play a joke on the scientist. So they 
caught a grasshopper, a beetle, a butter¬ 
fly and a centipede, and out of these they 
made a strange, composite insect. They 
took the centipede's body, the butterfly’s 
w'ngs, the grasshopper's legs and the 
beetle's head, and they glued them care¬ 
fully together. Then, with their new 
bug in a box, they knocked at Darwin’s 
door. 
‘‘We caught this bug in a field," they 
said. Can you tell us what kind of a 
bug it is, Mr. Darwin?" 
Darwin looked at the hug and then he 
locked at the boys. He smiled slightly. 
“Did you notice whether it hummed 
when you caught it, boys?" he asked. 
“Yes,” they answered, nudging one 
another. 
‘‘Then," said Darwin, ‘fit is a hum- 
bug.” 
