The Yellow Wren 



CHAPTER XVII 



The Furze- Wren or Furze-Fairy 



I CAME to that unnamed little village, as I have said, 

 in quest of one of our rarest songsters; then the people 

 of the cottage where I lodged came between me and 

 my subject with their human sweetness and sorrows, 

 and telling of them I forgot to say whether or not I 

 had found my bird or even to mention its species. 



It happened that about a year or fourteen months 

 before I started on this quest, a friend wrote to inform 

 me that by chance he had discovered a new locality 

 for the Dartford Warbler, that delicate birdling of the 

 furze bushes, our furze-wren, so persistently sought 

 after for many years past by our collectors. He was 



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