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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

things, in a spiritual com­panionship with the little people of the air, who always symbolize to us hope, optimism, and the brighter qualities of existence. To take your gun and kill the air neigh­bors is brutal, stupid-and you ought to be ashamed of it. Take a pair of opera glasses instead, and do a little "watchful waiting" in a corner of the shrubbery. Learn to know the various uniforms of the aerial FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 143 companies, the blue, gray, yellow, and red, the various tufts, tails, and topknots, that are vastly more interesting than soldiers' regalia on the battlefield, or women's hats on the Champs Elysees. Speaking of hats, is it not incredible that countless valuable insect-eating birds, who are our greatest defense against the worms and bugs that destroy a billion dollars' worth of crops annually in the United States, are destroyed that their feathers may decorate women's headgear? After you come to know your bird friends take measures to provide for their comfort Be a bird landlord. Put up houses for them. You will

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