64 WITHIN AN HOUR OF LONDON TOWN. 



make use of it. If the Jews of old were forbidden 

 to muzzle the great ox that treads the corn, shall 

 boys be allowed to wantonly or unreasonably destroy 

 the little creatures whose fall we are told the All- 

 father notes ? 



Even after a month or six weeks have been passed 

 by them in picking up the scattered grains, sharp as 

 are those thousands of eyes, they do not pick up all, 

 as you may prove by looking at any wheat-field that 

 has lain fallow for any length of time after it has 

 been reaped ; the blades will be springing up in 

 all directions. 



And so we think we have made out a fair case 

 for persecuted Philip Sparrow. 



The green plover, or lapwing, is another of the 

 farmer's good friends. He not only forms a beauti- 

 ful and interesting feature in the landscape, running 

 over the fields and meadows, but, by his incessant 

 search for those creatures that infest some lands, he 

 confers on their cultivators more benefits than they 

 appreciate. Being a very wide-awake bird, happily 

 for himself, he does not get interfered with as 

 a rule. To get the blind side of a flock of peewits 

 wants, as they say, " a lot of o'nooverin' " (man- 



