How many of these bills were for the plumage of slaughtered birds the historian does not say.

But the passion for the beautiful is very strong in the tender hearts of women, and an earnest appeal to the natural gentleness of the sex must be made to enlist them in the defense of the birds.
Mrs.Patterson enters upon this task with enthusiasm, and many a bird will live to flutter through the trees or glisten in the sunshine and gladden the earth with its beauty that but for this little book would have perched for a brief season upon the headgear of some lovely woman.
Let the good work go on until the mummy of a dead bird will be recognized by all persons as an unfitting decoration for the head of womankind.
JOHN F.LACEY.
CONTENTS CHAPTER I.

THE ORCHARD II.

DICKEY DOWNY'S MEDITATIONS III.

THE RULER WITH THE IRON HAND IV.