The little wrens saw it, and said to their father when he returned from the fields: "O papa, a gigantic animal passed by.

A great yard so cursed that the little brown wrens refuse to bless it with their feet!

Birds of the boldest wing and brightest huesthe denizens of the woods and the watersof every variety of plumage, habit, song, and sizefrom the splendid macaw and toucan to the uncouth pelican and the shapeless puffinfrom the gigantic ostrich to the beautiful but diminutive golden wren; in short, all the birds which are congregated in this spot come, literally, from every corner of our globe.

She snapped her dark head, perked it as might a puzzled wren.

The silly wren, the titmouse also, The little redbreast have their election, They fly I saw and together gone, Whereas hem list, about environ As they of kinde have inclination, And as nature impress and guide, Of everything list to provide.

But now and then a spry little wren pays a visit to the orchard, and then there is sport indeed.

Miller once, in Guiana, had been watching for some days a nest of ant-wrens which contained young.

And, for each, a yellow wren, One a cock, and one a hen, Sweetly warbling, flitted forth O'er the desert toward the north.