HOUSE AND GARDEN 
142 
February, 
1914 
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toria, L. I. THE ERKINS STUDIOS 226 
THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF ORNAMENTAL STONE 
Two limpkins, as I called them, although 
they had four other names to choose from, 
used to wade out on the grass of the 
Glades, where the canoe could not follow 
them. Marion waded after the birds for 
an hour, going less than a hundred yards 
from the canoe when she secured the pic¬ 
ture she sought. Often I was her accom¬ 
plice and once posed with a colored cur¬ 
lew on my hand while its white ibis mother 
sat by awaiting her turn. 
When the time came to leave, the girl 
begged for another day with her pets, and 
I promised to give her a day on our way 
home from Cape Sable, where I wanted to 
spend a few days looking for a small rook¬ 
ery which I feared had been ruined. That 
fear was realized, but near Man-o’-War 
Bush I gave Marion a chance to photo¬ 
graph some young of the fast-disappearing 
great American egret and of the big blue 
heron. We had no time to tame these 
birds, but managed to take their pictures 
without it. Chasing them soon tired them 
out, and then they would cling to anything 
on which they were placed—old snag, gun¬ 
wale of boat or canoe, or a harpoon pole. 
It was upon this latter that I most fre¬ 
quently placed them, and then holding it 
upon the water, allowed it to sink a few 
inches below the surface, when a slight 
turn of the hand that held the pole would 
cause the bird to spread his wings in the 
most picturesque manner in the effort to 
balance himself. When our time limit was 
reached, leaving only a day to spend with 
our friends of the bird colony, we started 
north. As we passed up the river it 
seemed to me that an unusual number of 
birds were flying aimlessly about, but I at¬ 
tached no significance to this until, as we 
approached the rookery, so few birds were 
to be seen that it was apparent that it had 
been practically abandoned. Gone were 
our little friends. Not a welcoming “Qua, 
qua,” or a scolding “Squawk.” Beneath 
the trees and often under the home nests 
were the mangled bodies of our bird 
friends. There were young birds yet alive 
in some of the nests, and others wading 
in the swamp, but not old enough to 
find food for themselves. If they had been 
fewer and less scattered I would have put 
the dying birds out of their misery. Then 
there was the chance that some of the 
mother birds would come back and the 
possibility that such as did return would 
care for some of the orphans as well as for 
their own broods. Such humanity has 
been claimed for these birds and I trust it 
is true, though I have never found evi¬ 
dence to support the claim. 
When the order for the boat to head 
down stream was given, Marion asked that 
she might first be taken to the home of her 
special pet, the nest where she fed the little 
brood and afterwards photographed the 
white ibis mother which from a nearby 
branch had talked to her while she fed the 
bird babies. I paddled the canoe through 
the familiar channels with many misgiv¬ 
ings, but the end was worse than I could 
have dreamed. For the little ones lav dead 
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