Show WHISTLING GIRL TALKS TO BIRDS IN HER HULL M TEXAS HOME feathered warblers War Warb blare lers glye give dally daily serenades serenade for miss mis dorothy mcfarland of dallas dalla dallas texas from early child hood miss dorothy mcfarland seventeen year old daughter of mr and mn aim dwight mcfarland ot of dallas his has been talking to birds she comes neater nearer understanding the meanings of songs and notes of the many different kinds of birds that she bhe has about her than any other living person her friends declare by imitating the calls 4 if birds she filie quickly makes friends with them and they come la in great creat docks to her home and serenade her neb d day BY miss mcfarland Mc Nic Forland Farland Is a pupil at north dallas high school and she frequently has del lighted her schoolmates mates g with her imitations of songs aind 11 nd calls of birds dorothy k know now when she hevan hegan her pastime of ta 0 4 o the birds bird they seemed like little fairies to me when I 1 was young enough to believe that fairies really existed she declared after a while I 1 began to imitate the sounds they produced I 1 had bad never heard of professional whistlers at that time and knew no one of my own sex who was interested in whistling so I 1 go at the art in a convent conventional Jonal manner but bat just practiced and pro practiced until with the aid of the diaphragm tongue and flips I 1 could produce sounds souna that were very like bird notes doles when she told her elders eldera that she could really talk to the birds they had bad to see and hear her performances to become convinced 1 I 1 would come very close to a mocking bird related dorothy ilind and whatever was sung by him 1 immediately initiated there was one obe bird k i who turned his eyes toward me with wonderment his bis head bead would tut alt over to one side aide then he would apparently pull down his bla vest veal swallow hard and send out a perfect torrent of sounds tn in an effort to lose me conversationally when I 1 persisted la in answering in my best bird talk he be would listen curiously then with a disgusted look he be would fly away 1 I wish everybody in dallas could hear the bird concerts given at my home every morning generously concedes dorothy birds dont nave have t to practice in order to be able to ang sing they just fill the air with melody but I 1 practice several hours boura every morning during vacation and I 1 change summer for any other pirt part of the year A visit to it a local bli blid bird d store stor found dorothy mcfarland Farland Uc able to make friends with even the shyest shiest canary and the most captious critic among the parrots birds like to be noticed just like humans she ebe eald cold and they know when you love them and when you are just tooling fooling them some day rm im going to have co costumes just like the canar lej and the gorgeous macans macaws and til rit give such fine impersonation that dallas will be proud of me m yath vet |