Outing . , and when the call toarms came for the Spanish War, the gallantold veteran slipped away from his familyto St. Louis, to offer his services to his oldcommander, Fitzhugh Lee. Of such heroicstuff were the old filibusters—impulsive,lawless, faithful, but filled with the fiery,chivalrous devotion of the South. Theyare a vanished race, faultful and unscrupu-lous no doubt, but they had the fightingedge if ever men did. DECEMBER BY HECTOR DONALD The last wild duck has gone; the North Winds breathHas stripped the trees: their branches black and bareRattle and sway a ghostly dance of death,Br
Outing . , and when the call toarms came for the Spanish War, the gallantold veteran slipped away from his familyto St. Louis, to offer his services to his oldcommander, Fitzhugh Lee. Of such heroicstuff were the old filibusters—impulsive,lawless, faithful, but filled with the fiery,chivalrous devotion of the South. Theyare a vanished race, faultful and unscrupu-lous no doubt, but they had the fightingedge if ever men did. DECEMBER BY HECTOR DONALD The last wild duck has gone; the North Winds breathHas stripped the trees: their branches black and bareRattle and sway a ghostly dance of death,Breaking the cold, grim silence. EverywhereNature lies dormant in a bleak, brown rivers fringed with points of crackling ice;The very water glides by black and cowed,Before the first cruel touch of Frosts hard vise;Above the leaden storm clouds raise their heads:A few stray flecks of snow flit through the air, Mid dead and dull-hued leaves to find their beds Oer alls the resignation of A GoodInvestment There are few national sub-jects so imperfectly under-stood as that of bird protec-tion; and comparativelyfew readers who realize thatthe protection of birds is a subject of suchwide importance. Most people look uponthe movement as having no deeper signifi-cance than the worthy agitation of a groupof enthusiasts, and to these I commend thestatistics recently compiled by the ento-mologist of the Agriculture Departmentshowing the annual loss of millions of dol-lars to the countrys agriculture throughonly the destructive work of insects. Thereis not a farmer or a land owner in Americawhose pocket is not directly affected bybird protection, for the very good reasonthat in no country in the world do insectsimpose a heavier tax on farm productsthan in the United States; and birds arethe most dependable as well as most activedestroyers of insects. So you see the sub-ject is one of the greatest general concern,for every wild bird that is saved is a diligentand an int
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