ASNAPPER. 



"Heard ye the Owl 



Hoot to her mate responsive ? 'Twas not she 

 Whom, floating on white pinions near his barn, 

 The farmer views well-pleased, and bids his boy 

 Forbear her nest ; but she who, cloth'd in robe 

 Of unobtrusive brown, regardless flies 

 Mouse-haunted corn-stacks and the thresher's floor, 

 And prowls for plunder in the lonely wood." 



