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in his dress, when he expected no company, made 

 this reply : ' Because, 'said he, ' there is one woman in 

 the world who is obliged to receive me in any dress.' 

 Clearly Mr. Redstart thinks the same of his sober 

 little Puritan wife, who always so modestly keeps in 

 the background. He must give a lot of time every 

 day to keep, what an old woman I knew called, ' a 



REDSTART. 



From a Male in Mi: Maxwell's Aviary. 



extrj' particular going one.' There is only one time 

 in the day when Mr. Redstart gets a bit sulky : it is 

 when his little partner slips away with a fat meal- 

 worm ; then he looks as grouty as King Ahab when 

 he turned his face to the wall and would eat no bread. 



The song of the Redstart is nothing very special, 

 but sometimes he will open out a little, perhaps to 

 shew, Todgers-like, ' he can do it when he likes.' 



