CHAPTER XVIII. 





THE WARBLERS. 



IN the days of Imperial Rome there were, 1 suppose, 

 almostevery- 

 where large 

 communities 

 of humble 

 brickmakers, 

 who made 

 cheap bricks 

 for poor folks' 

 houses, and 

 other sorts of 

 obscure, but 

 necessary, 

 people ; but 

 Tacitus does 

 not mention 

 them, so far 

 as I recollect. 

 There are 

 birds which 

 fill a similar 

 place in the 

 feathered Tailor Bird and Wren-warbler. 



common- 



wealth. The Wren Warblers and Tree Warblers 

 do an inestimable amount of useful work and appear 

 to enjoy as large a measure of contentment and 



