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Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives. 



Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, 



Pretty and quiet with plain brown wings, 

 Passing at home a patient life, 

 Broods in the grass while her husband sings 

 Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, 

 Spink, spank, spink; 

 Brood, kind creature; you need not fear 

 Thieves and robbers while I am here. 

 Chee, chee, chee. 



Fig. 142. "Merrily sziuiigiug on brier and leeed/ 



Modest and shy as a nun is she; 



One weak chirp is her only note. 

 Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, 

 Pouring boasts from his little throat: 

 Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, 

 Spink, spank, spink; 

 Never was I afraid of man; 

 Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can! 

 Chee, chee, chee. 



Six white eggs on a bed of hay. 



Flecked with purple, a pretty sight! 



There as the mother sits all day, 

 Robert is singing with all his might 



