A sparrow shall you be!

[Ingé changes into a SPARROW, with a tuft of white feathers, just the shape of a loaf of bread, upon its head.

The Sparrow flies from the mud.] SPARROW.

SPARROW (showing surprise).

[The SPARROW sits in a hole in the wall.]

There, little Sparrow, say you now there is no kindness? SECOND STONE.

* OUR SPARROW.

THE VERY OLD SPARROW.

THE OLD SPARROW.

[All the SPARROWS except Our Sparrow sit on the stone wall.

The stranger is a sparrow, but still not a sparrow.

VERY OLD SPARROW.

VERY YOUNG SPARROW.

VERY OLD SPARROW.

Shall we drive away the one who finds food where we find none? YOUNG SPARROW.

VERY YOUNG SPARROW.

Now, how many do you think? OLD SPARROW.

VERY OLD SPARROW (nodding).

VERY YOUNG SPARROW.

Here comes the stranger now! OLD SPARROW.

VERY OLD SPARROW.

[Our Sparrow drops the crust for the others.

"The good book tells us that not a sparrow shall fall without the eye of Divine Providence being on it.

Ovid would be a flea, a gnat, a ring, Catullus a sparrow, [5470] "O si tecum ludere sicut ipsa possem, Et tristes animi levare curas.

She many times that in a composed look seems so amiable and delicious, tam scitula, forma, if she do but laugh or smile, makes an ugly sparrow-mouthed face, and shows a pair of uneven, loathsome, rotten, foul teeth: