^^ The robin and the 2vre?i 



Are God Almighty's cooh and hen.'* 



Old Ballad. 



'* With head beneath her iving, 



A little wren was sleejoing, 



So near, I had found it an easy thing 



To steal her for my keeping." 



li^GELOW. 



'^ It was decided in a parliament of the birds that the one 

 thatfieiv highest should be their king. The wren hid itself 

 on the eagle's bach, and when the eagle had floion the high- 

 est the ivren fluttered a little higher still." 



Glossakt. 



" The winter wren in summer, is one of those birds of 

 the deep forest, that like the Canada speckled warbler and 

 the hermit thrush, only the privileged ones hear." 



