Show POOR PLAYTHING about the tha poorest plaything a parent can buy for a boy la Is a gun with which to shoot the birds it if birds ato twice the fruit they do they would fall to collect tor for tho the service they render la in destroying insects which prey on the fruit it la Is ungrateful to shoot a bird because it eats eata a little fruit it Is ia wrong to teach a boy to kill and destroy birds it would be more helpful to teach him the and interesting side aide ot of bird life and lust just as easy we recall a trip into the mountain on which we wa went above the line where birds are found A death like stillness reigned every whre it was oppressive wo we realized for the first time what a lot of difference even the chirp of the generally despised sparrow can make |