. Birds and nature . fully fledged before at-tempting to fly, and it is stated that theparents sometimes have to drive themfrom the nest. Even after the younghave learned to fly they will still furnishthem with food. Mr. Silloway says: Itis not uncommon to see the parents feed-ing the young birds while the latter aresailing about on wings which they havelearned to use with almost the freedom oftheir elders. OCTOBER. Moon of the falling leaves:Softly the ground-wind grieves— Turning their rusted gold,—Recalling primrose eves,And yellow birds, now oldAnd fled from stress and cold. Moon of the wa
. Birds and nature . fully fledged before at-tempting to fly, and it is stated that theparents sometimes have to drive themfrom the nest. Even after the younghave learned to fly they will still furnishthem with food. Mr. Silloway says: Itis not uncommon to see the parents feed-ing the young birds while the latter aresailing about on wings which they havelearned to use with almost the freedom oftheir elders. OCTOBER. Moon of the falling leaves:Softly the ground-wind grieves— Turning their rusted gold,—Recalling primrose eves,And yellow birds, now oldAnd fled from stress and cold. Moon of the wandering kine:On cruel farms they pine Unfed, and moaning sapless shrubs outline The fence and stony heap, Where browse the starving sheep. Moon of the beechen mast:In ancient forests vast, How leisured feasts the bear—Fattening for Winters blast, While sigh the tree tops bare, Hazed in the purple air. —Eliza Woodworth. WE NOVEMBER, 1904 The beautiful is as useful as the useful.—Victor Hugo. No. 4. NATURE CONTENTS [Illustration] INDIAN SUMMER (Emily Dickinson) [Poem] THE ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK (Addle L. Booker) FOR A DREAM (Willis Edwin Hurd) [Poem] THE HEN AND HER FAMILY (N. Penelope Covert) .... THE LEAST SANDPIPER [Illustration] THE EAGLE, THE OWL AND THE LITTLE BROWN CHAT (Viola Collins Hogarty) ....... MARIGOLDS IN NOVEMBER (M. D. Tolman) [Poem]THE BLUEBIRD (Collins Thurber) [Illustration]JIMMIE (Pearl McCowan) ..... THE SURGE SONG (Frank Farrington) [Poem] MY FARMER FRIENDS—PART II (Warren Higgins) THE BLACK AND WHITE CREEPING WARBLEB (H. Walton Clark) [Illustration] .......... CURIOUS ROCKS IN THE GARDEN OP THE GODS (Mary McCrae Culter) THE GOLDEN ORIOLE [Illustration] THERE IS A SPIRIT IN THE WOODS (Charles Elmer Jenney) [Poem}SOME CURIOUS ANIMALS (Belle Paxson Drury) .... TO THE MAIDEN-HAIR FERN (Roland E. Conklin) [Poem] AIR PLANTS (Mary Lee Van Hook) THE SKYLARK [Illustration] AN AUTUMNAL DAY-DREAM (Norman O. Foerster) .... THE CATBIRD [Illustra
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