Three Feathered Mites 
wrens ; the very smallest, wee-est birds 
we have. And in spite of their being so 
tiny, many of them cross over the cruel 
North Sea in the autumn. For though 
we have many of them living with us all 
the year round, other countries have 
them also. Those which live in the 
forests of Norway and Sweden, where 
the winter is so much colder than it is 
with us, are sometimes forced to leave 
when the cold is too severe for them. 
Then thousands of them land on our 
eastern coast, in flocks which cover the 
sand dunes and bushes with crowds of 
weary wanderers ; others rest on fishing- 
boats and ships, and no doubt thousands 
more fall, exhausted with their long 
flight, into the pitiless grey seas which 
heave and tumble so continuously below 
them, Just think of such a mite, not so 
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