BY TUB WAYSIDE 
SUNSHINE HUMANE SOCIETY. 
When the Michigan Humane and 
Audubon Societies held their annual 
meetings in Traverse City last month, 
your President said to one of the mem¬ 
bers, “Write something for the Sun- 
shiners about the birds in the Upper 
Peninsula!” How pleased she was 
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; this week when such a cunning little 
j poem came to her from your grown-up 
f friend. It is called : 
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The Fall Migration. 
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Said the swallow to the chickadee, 
"Where do you go this fall, 
When the cold and frost is every- 
where, 
And snow is over all?” 
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“I go into the thick woods, 
Where the spruce and balsam grow, 
Where the tall pine and green hem¬ 
lock 
Shelter give, tho’ wind may blow.” 
“But what do you eat in winter, 
When there are no gnats or flies, 
When the clouds hang low and dreary, 
And snow falls from out of the 
skies?” 
“The birch and poplar tree buds, 
The seeds from cedar trees, 
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Insects in bark and branches, 
Are then the foods that please.” 
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| i on must get cold in winter, 
I should think you'd freeze your 
toes, 
When the coons and bears are sleep- 
( i'ng, 
j And a man might freeze his nose.” 
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“1 am always warm in winter, 
And I do just what .1 please, 
I My toes are not like peoples’ 
And I have no nose to freeze.” 
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I go south in stormy winter,” 
Swallow said, “across the sea. 
Where all is warmth and sunshine, 
Won’t you come along with me?” 
Oh, I love my home in winter! 
And I would not go away. 
'Chickadee!’ I call most gladly, 
In December as in May.” 
“Well, I must be off to Southland, 
Before your north winds blow. 
I will see you in the spring time, 
1 must say good-by and go.” 
“Good-by, my friendly swallow, 
In that land so far away, 
Think of me in spruce and cedar, 
And come back some warm spring 
day ! ’ ’ 
ITow many of you boys and girls 
know what the birds eat in winter. It 
would be well worth your time to 
watch the cunning chickadees, nut¬ 
hatches, brown creepers, and wood¬ 
peckers, and all the other familiar win¬ 
ter birds. How cheery it is to see 
them, when the trees are bare of leaves, 
and the skies are gray! Your Pre:i- 
dent believes she loves the brave win¬ 
ter birds even more than the summer 
ones with their sweet songs! 
—By John Watkins. 
Bird Protection in Alaska 
The United States Bureau of Educa¬ 
tion is cooperating with the National 
Association of Audubon Societies in an 
educational campaign to save the birds, 
game, and furbearing animals in Alaska. 
Bird study will be inaugurated in all 
the schools and other measures will be 
adopted to accomplish the end sought. 
The National Association has an¬ 
nounced that it will spend the sum of 
$7,500 in this work during the coming 
year. 
