THE SPARROW 



The sparrow is like the lark a bird 

 more particularly found in France. 

 Whilst the lark represents certain 

 lyrical sides of the French race, its 

 dauntless buoyancy, its spirited live- 

 liness, the sparrow, is the emblem 

 of gallic petulancy, of the noisy, jolly 

 animal spirits of the people of Paris. 

 Therefore it is in Paris where one 

 can best observe the habits of these sharp, impudent, 

 pilfering birds of passage. They congregate in swarms on 

 the roofs of Parisian houses, in the noisiest streets, in 

 the most frequented gardens. Clad in a grey and brown 



