They work like beavers as long as daylight lasts, going to and from the fields carrying on each return trip a fat grub or a toothsome grasshopper." "I am a great lover of birds," returned the professor enthusiastically, "and I find them very interesting subjects of study.

By the way, I was reading the other day a little incident connected with one of America's great men which impressed me deeply.

The story goes that he was one day walking in company with some noted statesmen, busily engaged in conversation.

But he was not too much occupied to notice that a young bird had fallen from its nest near the path where they were walking.
He stopped short and crossing over to where the bird was lying, tenderly picked it up and put it back into its nest.

There was a gentleman of a noble nature! No wonder that man was a leader and a liberator!" "Who was he ?" "The grand, the great Abraham Lincoln," responded the professor impressively.
"Well, he'd be the very one to do just such a kind deed as that," was the colonel's hearty response.