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enjoying the warmth with that 

 peculiar air of jauntiness by which 

 Wren-nature expresses satisfaction 

 with things as they are. 



" Wrens, are they ? " said a friend 

 of mine when I pointed out to him 

 the little brown things flitting in the 

 half-light ; " I took them for bats ! " 



It is astonishing how little some 

 people know of that beautiful life 

 the old fairy-tale life that is about 

 us in the fields and woods and 

 waters. Bats or Wrens it is all the 

 same to some blind souls. There 

 is a knowledge that comes more 

 through the heart than the head, 

 and is as Kingsley suspected 

 one of those secrets which God 

 may hide from the wise and reveal 

 to babes. Only patient and loving 

 watchfulness can really teach us 

 much about our Father's plans for 

 His wonderful creatures. But once 

 let a man open heart and eyes, 

 once let him stop and "consider," 



