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Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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autiful for your own chil-dren, especially your poor children to play in. Every year we fly a great way over the coun-try, keeping all the time where the sun is bright bird were not in the sky, alive, but in a shop win-dow or under a glass case. If this goes on muchlonger all your song birds will be gone. Already,we are told, in some other countries that usedto be full of birds, they are almost gone. Eventhe nightingales are being all killed in Italy. Now we humbly pray that you will stop allthis, and will save us from this sad fate. Youhave already made a law that no one shall killa harmless song bird or destroy our nests andour eggs. Will you please to make anotherthat no one shall wear our feathers, so that noone will kill us to get them. We are told thatit is as easy for you to do it as for Blackbirdsto whistle. If you will, we know how to pay you a hun-dred times over. We will teach your childrento keep themselves clean and neat. We willshow them how to live together in peace and
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Theyll come again to the apple-tree, Robins and all the rest; And the prettiest thing in the world will be the building of the nest. and warm; and we know that whenever you doanything, other people all over this great landbetween the seas and the great lakes find it out,and pretty soon will try to do the same thing.We know; we know. We are Americans justas you are. Some of us, like some of you,came from across the great sea; but most of thebirds like us have lived here a long while; andbirds like us welcomed your fathers when theycame here many years ago. Our fathers andmothers have always done their best to pleaseyour fathers and mothers. Now we have a sad story to tell you. Thought-less or bad people are trying to destroy us.They kill us because our feathers are beautiful.Even pretty and sweet girls, who we shouldthink would be our best friends, kill our broth-ers and children so that they may wear theirpretty plumage on their hats. Sometimes peo-ple hunt and kill us from mere wanto

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