_Wilson Flagg_: one of our earliest outdoor writers. Look up his life in any American biographical dictionary.
For a fuller account of this Wild Bird Reservation see the chapter in "Where Rolls the Oregon," called "Three-Arch Rocks Reservation." Bring out in your reading the point I wished to make, namely that these great reservations of State and Federal Government are not only to preserve bird and animal life, but also to preserve nature--a portion of the earth--wild and primitive and thrilling, against the constant encroachments of civilization. Interest your pupils in their own local parks, preserves, etc., and if they have farms or wood-lots, have them post them and set them aside as their personal sanctuaries for wild life.
_Tillamook_: the name of a town near the coast of Oregon.
_at the mouth of the bay_: Tillamook Bay, where the bar is only about thirty feet wide, making the passage extremely difficult and dangerous.
_Three-Arch Rocks Reservation_: was set aside by President Roosevelt. Credit for this and the other Oregon Reservations is largely due to Mr. William L. Finley and the Audubon Societies.
_Shag Rock_: so named for the black cormorants that nest upon it, for these birds are commonly known as "shags."
_the sea-lions_: were of the species known as Steller's sea-lions.
_reversed in shape_: I mean the close hind flippers, the tapering hind end of the body, gave them an unnatural shape--reversed.
Set the pupils to watching for evidences of mother-love among the lower creatures, where we do not think of finding it; stir them to look for unreported acts, and the hidden, less easily observed ways. Such a suggestion might be the turning of a new page for them in the book of nature.
_Cud_: the ball of grass or hay that the cow keeps bringing up from her first stomach to be chewed and swallowed, going then into the second stomach, where it is digested.
_stanchions_: the iron or wooden fastening about the cow's neck in the stall.
_mother-principle_: the instinct or unconscious impulse of all living things to reproduce their kind.
_spores_: the name of the seed dust of the ferns.
_the hunter family_: these are the spiders that build no nets or webs for snaring their prey, but hunt their prey over the ground.