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herself from a flock of Finches on a high tree ; and down 

 she sat on the paling close beside me. I oflfered her some 

 small crumbs, but she declined them : her object was pure 

 friendly recognition. After she had sat awhile, and I had 

 bantered her for her faithlessness to the kind old door, she 

 answered with a chuTup, and rejoined the sisterhood on the 

 tree. Such is little Tibbie of Mountainhall. Now I myself 

 never saw or heard of such habits in the Chaffinch before ; 

 and I have thought them not unworthy of being recorded in 

 the papers of our Society. 



