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Rural School Leaflet 



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Chimney swift, "Chimney swallow." — Size: About the size of an 

 English sparrow. 



General color: Grayish black or fuscous above and below. 



Distinctive features: This bird is seldom seen except when flying, 

 when it appears very much like a swallow but with narrower wings. 

 It can be distinguished from all the swallows by its uniform sooty 

 coloration and its apparently pointed tail. It nests in chimneys. 



Chimney swift 



A dainty, delicate swallow feather 

 Is all that we now in the chimney trace 

 Of something that days and days together, 

 With twittering bird notes filled the place. 



Where are you flying now, swallow, swallow? 

 Where are you walking the spaces blue? 

 How many little ones follow, follow, 

 Whose wings to strength in the chimney grew? 



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MARY BARBER DODGE 



