| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. 6 <8- THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER -<®Gi)«b 8>~»—»—•—•—•—■ -®> Adverb says she likes to follow Verb. Adjective likes to go ahead of Noun and let people know what kind of a girl she is. Preposition likes to tag them all and say in, out, over, etc. Interjection likes to surprise Young America and make her take notice of the rest of them. Grammar says, "Now we will begin to bell) Young America; first we will make Simple Declarative Sentences. Noun and Adjective will work both on the subject and predicate side. Grammar fells Young America that she can use- us whenever she wants to but that she must use us correctly." Grammar asks Young America what a sentence, noun, pronoun, etc. is. Young America answers making a few mistakes. Young America goes and writes a sentence but she makes a mistake and the Parts of Speech begin to complain. Then she says "Polite is an adjective. Girl is a noun, eat is a verb and slowly is an adverb." She then corrected the sentence, "Polite girls eat slowly." Grammar tells her that it was very good. Then Young America goes to Good English, kneels and asks forgiveness for not treating her right. She promises that she will always be tier friend in the future. Tlie play was closed with a hymn, 'flood English." —lown Ledbetter. SSait THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS When spring arrives, birds seem to be everywhere, making themselves much at home, as though they were steady residents. How far have they flown? Where have they spent the winter? [low long did it take them to come back? Why do they migrate? It would be interesting to know much about them. Robins are always the first birds to greet us after a, long trip from the South. At first, there arc so few l,o be seen but just enough, even one to tell us that, spring has come; then later the campus is thick with welcome red breasted visitors, singing cheerful songs and making il. different and gay after such a long, dreary winter. It is thought that the first ones to arrive are our nesting birds and that those bound tor farther north, pass through a little later. Some have found their old place; some seem to be more or Jess lost, even if they are in the right locality, and others are seeking out a suitable place for a home. We often wonder if birds return to the same nesting place year after year. Many records show that they do. It seems apparent that they recognize the location by fhe frees., houses, etc., with which they became familiar during- the last summer. Some of the observations show that birds make a careful study of the surroundings of their old home in order that they may find the place again, and also that some birds have difficulty or fail to find the same location. If the first robin disappears soon after be arrives, it is likely that he is continuing his hunt for the- particular tree where he spent the last summer. Every spring a pair of tiny house wren return to the same nesting place up in a small rusty can which is tied firmly to a tree near our house and are constantly busy right in our sight. They seem to think there is no place like old home. If is said that many birds banded up in the North, are recaptured in the South. According to a report made by a lady in Jamestown, a North Dakota bird lias been spending the winter in Louisiana. A bird wearing Biological Survey band no. 54775 which she had placed on its leg July 25, was caught in Louisiana, .January 30. A bird banded in Jowa in July, 1924, was found at Ray, N. D., in September 1.925. We should build homes for the little summer visitors, for in this way we help to protect the birds, and, morever, they make the surroundings more pleasant and cheerful as well as serve useful purposes. Tins average speeel of birds is not more than thirty or forty miles an hour. Some birds, as the yellowlegs, emigrate in fhe fall from the Arctic regions to Southern South America, and return in the spring, thus making a journey of about 16,000 miles each year. —O. M. A. "Y ■CiV X Ponce De Leon Four hundred years ago the Spaniards conquered Cuba by battle. Ponce De Boon was governor of Porto Rico for many years. He determined to explore the other places. Several years had elapsed and Ponce De Leon was growing old, but he was excited by the Indians who told him about a wonderful land, which was not far away for him to go. They informed him that be could find an abundance of gold and silver there. He obtained a charter from the king who let. him explore it for gold. if was Raster Day that Ponce De Leon discovered Florida. He failed to discover gold. lie returned again to Florida from Porto Rico. He was killed there by the Indians. —Clarence Pettit. X X X "Lincoln At Ford's Theatre" A long time ago in April, 1865, I believe it was the 14th, if must have been a pleasant day after the long war was over and I think that everybody must have been wild with joy but il, was to be Bin- coin's last, day on earth. The Evening Star the
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