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G.H. Mackay stated that this bird and the golden plover had decreased 90 per cent in fifty years, and in the last ten years of that period 90 per cent of the remainder had gone. "Now ," says Mr. Forbush, "ornithologists believe that the Eskimo curlew is practically extinct, as only a few specimens have been recorded since the beginning of the twentieth century."
To-day, the species exists only in one locality, the island of Martha's Vineyard, and concerning its present status, Mr. Forbush has recently furnished us the following clear statement: "The heath hens increased for two years after the Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission established a reservation for them, but in 1911 they had not increased. There are probably about two hundred birds extant.
Carter may be more closely connected, judging from his gallant attentions to Julia Forbush, who has developed into a charming young lady. Nothing would suit Mr. Carter better, for there is no one who stands higher in his regard than Philip Granville, the Errand Boy. Fred Sargent, upon this day from which my story dates, went to the head of his Latin class, in the high school of Andrewsville.
"You'd better, and without delay!" said Pitkin irascibly. Phil emerged upon the street with a sinking heart. His available funds consisted only of the money he had just received and seventy-five cents in change, and what he was to do he did not know. He walked home with slow steps, looking sad in spite of his usually hopeful temperament. When he entered the house he met Mrs. Forbush in the hall.
Forbush, with joyful tears. "It will be living once more. It will be such a rest from the hard struggle I have had of late years." "You can repay me by humoring all my whims," said Uncle Oliver, smiling. "You will find me very tyrannical. The least infraction of my rules will lead me to send you all packing." "Am I to be treated in the same way, Mr. Carter?" asked Philip. "Exactly."
At the moment we can, however, make the deepest impression by insistence on the importance of the actual, the real, the exactly true. I. References for Study E.L. Cabot, Every Day Ethics, chaps. xix, xx. Holt, $1.25. W.B. Forbush, On Truth Telling. Pamphlet. American Institute of Child Life, Philadelphia, Pa. J. Sully, Children's Ways, pp. 124-33. Appleton, $1.25. II. Further Reading
In a great book entitled Useful Birds and Their Protection, by E.H. Forbush, State Ornithologist of Massachusetts, and published by the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture in 1905, there appears, on page 362, many interesting facts on this subject. For example: Mr. William Brewster tells of an acquaintance in Maine, who said that his cat killed about fifty birds a year. Mr.
Forbush does not have many carriage-callers," said Philip, smiling. "Perhaps she will have more hereafter," said Mr. Carter, "I ought not so long to have lost sight of her. I always liked Rebecca better than Lavinia, yet I let the latter prejudice me against her cousin, who is in disposition, education and sincerity her superior.
"But, uncle," objected Mrs. Forbush, "these things won't at all correspond with our plain home and mode of living. Think of a boarding-house keeper arrayed like a fine lady." "You are going to give up taking boarders that is, you will have none but Philip and myself." "Will you really live with us, uncle? But the house is too poor." "Of course it is, but you are going to move.
"We are not fashionable, uncle," said Mrs. Forbush, "and we haven't any change to make." They entered the carriage, and drove to a large and fashionable store, where everything necessary to a lady's toilet, including dresses quite complete, could be obtained. Mrs. Forbush was in favor of selecting very plain articles, but her uncle overruled her, and pointed out costumes much more costly.
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