Everything is so wonderful here, and all the birds outside are singing.

And, even though it should contrive To keep its pinions on the flap, And by a tour de force survive This devastating handicap, Yet are there perils in the skies Whereon we blandly shut our eyes, But which are bound to be incurred, And, notably, the Bolshy-bird.

The birds haveaway.

A CHICKEN I do not like the Cock because I'm such a homely bird!

Most small birds hop; but wagtails and larks walk, moving their legs alternately.

"Yes; Graham's a jolly bird; and Bull?" "I've no objection; and Pietrie?"

2. miahuatototl, literally, "the corn-silk bird," miahua being the term applied to the silk or tassel of the maize ear when in the milk.

have we not perpetual streams, Warm woods, and sunny hills, and fresh green fields, And mountains not less green, and flocks and herds, And thickets full of songsters, and the voice Of lordly birds, an unexpected sound Heard now and then from morn to latest eve, Admonishing the man who walks below Of solitude and silence in the sky.

Meantime the bird, fluttering on my shoulder, suggested a last chance; and snatching the tablet round its neck, I wrote two words thereon, and calling to it, "Home!"

But the children said, 'There is no war or hate in our forest; the birds meetwhy may not we?'

The spell of silence was broken, and the birds overhead broke into jubilant trills, as if they were laughing, too.

Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winters past, or coming, void of care, Well pleased with delights which present are, Fair seasons, budding sprays, sweet-smelling flowers, To rocks, to springs, to rills, from leavy bowers Thou thy Creator's goodness dost declare, And what dear gifts on thee he did not spare, A stain to human sense in sin that lowers.

But Charlie could not be persuaded to stay; and reluctantly Mrs. Bird made arrangements for his journey home.

"She never seemed to belong to me by rightonly a bird I had caught and caged, that loved me well, yet was eager to escape.

His habits too, it is said, partake of his appearance, he being alternately a bird of prey, and feeding on the same food with the Vultures.

To secure Kincaid's protection of your dear little brother's healthcharactermoralseh?" "Yes, 'twas so he put it," replied Flora, while the old lady's eyebrows visibly cried: "You sly bird!

Another great tie or cause of love, is consanguinity: parents are clear to their children, children to their parents, brothers and sisters, cousins of all sorts, as a hen and chickens, all of a knot: every crow thinks her own bird fairest.