. Gray Lady and the birds; stories of the bird year for home and school . rds have a very comfortable, good time, the part of theyear when they are not hunted; do you think we could,mother? For I dont think that this shy kind of birdwill come to the lunch-counter, and Ive been wonderinglately what they find to eat in such cold winters as thelast. Miss Wilde has told me that for weeks last winterthe snow was so deep that in going, from where she lived,a mile to school, she never even saw a fence top, so ifgame-birds feed chiefly on the ground after the mannerof barnyard fowls, roosting in low t
. Gray Lady and the birds; stories of the bird year for home and school . rds have a very comfortable, good time, the part of theyear when they are not hunted; do you think we could,mother? For I dont think that this shy kind of birdwill come to the lunch-counter, and Ive been wonderinglately what they find to eat in such cold winters as thelast. Miss Wilde has told me that for weeks last winterthe snow was so deep that in going, from where she lived,a mile to school, she never even saw a fence top, so ifgame-birds feed chiefly on the ground after the mannerof barnyard fowls, roosting in low trees and bushes, asone of my books says, I do not see why they do not freezeand starve. Thats what Pop and Grandther and Joe were talkingabout last night, said Tommy; they said that theytravelled over miles of stubble-fields and brush-lots wherethere used to be lots of birds, and now, in spite of the lawsin our place that are down on pot-hunters and wont letgame be sold or carried away, and our having a keencounty warden, the birds seem to be melting away justthe RUFFED GROUSE Dr. C. K. Hodge, Photo. FOUS NOTABLES 199 What did your father think was the reason? askedGray Lady, for she remembered as a young girl that theGeneral used to say, Get a farmer interested in a subjectenough to make him really think, and you cannot getbetter advice. Pop said all these new stiff-edged stone roads that arepushing out the dirt and grass lanes may be mighty finefor automobiles and all the other dust-raisers, but theyrepoor trash for horses feet and game-birds, cause thebrush along the old roads both sides of the fences madegood cover and kept the snow, when it drifted, sort ofloose, so that the birds could get in and out to look forfood. But when everything is trimmed smooth, the snowlies flat and hard and crusty, and the birds cant get underto grub for food, and if theyre under and it freezes on topof em, they cant get out. Grandther said that was so, but he reckoned therewasnt so muc
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