She exclaimed, 'For a sensible woman, you are the biggest fool I ever met!' This set me thinking, and with many misgivings I accepted an invitation." "And did you nearly expire with stage fright ?" "Never was scared one bit, my dear.

All bird-lovers are the nicest kind of folks, either as an audience or in their own homes.

I have made most delightful acquaintances lecturing in fifteen different States; am now booked for a tour in the West, lecturing every day and taking classes into the fields and woods for actual observation.
Nesting-time is the best time to study the birds, to know them thoroughly." "Do you speak about dead birds on hats ?" "Yes, when I am asked to do so.

Did you ever hear that Celia Thaxter, finding herself in a car with women whose head-gear emulated a bird-museum, was moved to rise and appeal to them in so kindly a way that some pulled off the feathers then and there, and all promised to reform?
She loved birds so truly that she would not be angry when spring after spring they picked her seeds out of her 'Island Garden.'" "Have you any special magnetic power over birds, so that they will come at your call or rest on your outstretched finger ?" "Not in the least.

I just like them, and love to get acquainted with them.