State of Connecticut.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB,
GOVERNOR
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It is a fair world in which our lines have been cast and
few parts of it are fairer than this little state of ours. If it lacks
the grandeur of others' mountains or the limitless expanse of
others' prairies, yet here is a wonderful mingling of wooded
hills, green meadows and well-watered valleys. And if the
wild life about them has not the brilliant colorings of tropic
lands, yet our birds are beautiful and their songs are sweet.
We are apt to forget how much an understanding of these
things can add to the richness of our lives and what a duty
we owe to those who follow us to preserve for them the
benefits we may so freely enjoy. It takes but a moment to
fell a tree, it takes years to replace it; a careless stone or shot
may kill a nesting bird, and with her die the generations of
her kind whom her care might assure to the coming years.
To emphasize these things the legislature has required that a
day be set apart each year for their consideration, and in
obedience to its mandate, I do now designate Friday, April
the twenty-eighth, as -
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requesting that it be so observed in the schools and elsewhere
as to awaken us to a greater appreciation of nature's workings
and nature's God.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine
hundred and sixteen, and of the independence of the United States
the one hundred and fortieth.
By His Excellency's Command:
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