. Bird-lore . spring a thousand miles downthe coast, and get a report from the HighSchool at Ruston, Louisiana, where thethird-grade group pictured have formed awide-awake society under the leadershipof Miss Blanche Heard, who speaks of hercharge as foUows: Each member selects a certain point orparagraph from the pamphlet, and addsto it any experience of his or her ownthat he or she thinks most pieces of poetry have been learned,one about the Meadowlark, and anotherThe Birds Nest. The field-trips aremore interesting to this class, althoughthey do show a great deal of enthus
. Bird-lore . spring a thousand miles downthe coast, and get a report from the HighSchool at Ruston, Louisiana, where thethird-grade group pictured have formed awide-awake society under the leadershipof Miss Blanche Heard, who speaks of hercharge as foUows: Each member selects a certain point orparagraph from the pamphlet, and addsto it any experience of his or her ownthat he or she thinks most pieces of poetry have been learned,one about the Meadowlark, and anotherThe Birds Nest. The field-trips aremore interesting to this class, althoughthey do show a great deal of enthusiasmin the reading and memorizing of thepoetry about the birds. But to see thebirds and hear the song is, to them, soreal. We have in view many more field-trips. Several of the boys are makingbird-boxes, but only two have completedtheirs. The picture exhibits what aneight-year-old boy and a nine-year-oldboy can do with rough materials and fewtools. It is good for the boys as well asfor the birds. 2^2 Bird-Lore. A FOURTH-GRADE CLASS AT MORRISTOWN, N. J. The picture just below the one takenat Ruston represents a cooking-class inthe Madison School at Richmond, Vir-ginia, which has joined with the JuniorAudubon Class in scattering bird-foodon the roof of their the birds will come to the feastafter the pretty cooks and waitresseshave departed. The ladj in the first line is the reporting teacher, Miss Helen The happy group depicted on this pagerepresents the flourishing society in thefourth-grade room of the SpeedwellAvenue School at Morristown, New is under the care of Miss C. E. Beach. The next illustration carries one inthought from colonial New Jersey to The Audubon Societies 233 modern Florida, and shows the club atPalm Beach, in respect to which Grice Havill, its organizer, writesan entertaining story: This Audubon Class was the result ofthe interest aroused by a lecture by Swope; and, after listening tohim, it was
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