STRINGS AND COTTON AND CHICKEN FEATHERS FOR THE BIRDS’ NESTINGS (See [page 56])

HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS

BY
S. LOUISE PATTESON
AUTHOR OF “PUSSY MEOW, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CAT”
AND “KITTY-KAT KIMMIE, A CAT’S TALE”

PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
COVER BY HELEN BABBITT AND ETHEL BLOSSOM

D. C. HEATH AND COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

DEDICATED TO
BOYS AND GIRLS

FOREWORD

This narrative of neighborship with birds is suggestive rather than exhaustive. It aims not so much to inform the reader, as to instill in him the desire to learn from the outdoors itself, to know at first hand about the charms and the benefactions of birdlife. The observing reader will supply what has been left unsaid, and so experience the zest of initiative, the joy of discovery, in our mysterious and manifold bird-world.