A SPARROW HUNG. 



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tion. In the hollow of the eye of one of these 

 heads a sparrow built its nest. But amongst the 

 materials which it employed for that purpose there 



unhappily chanced to be a woollen thread, with a 

 noose at one end. By some accident the poor little 

 fellow unfortunately got his own neck inserted in 

 the noose, and, in his efforts to extricate himself, 



