All in chorus

Good Night! Good Day!

Be kind to the birds and help repay

The songs they sing you the livelong day,

The bugs they gobble and put to flight—

Without birds, orchards would perish quite!

Good Day! Good Night!

—M. O. W.

Tommy and Dave, who represented the Screech Owls, followed up the last “good night” by a very realistic imitation of the mewing call-note and the cry of the little Screech Owl, that not only brought down the house, but caused the guests to go home in a state of laughing good humour.

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SOME BIRDS THAT COME IN MAY