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snow covers the frost-bound earth, the red- 

 breast boldly enters the house and finds 

 no enemy but the cat ; fearlessly perching 

 at length on your very chair back, and 

 almost living within doors. He loves, too, 

 a draught of milk, and often invades the 

 dairy, where he sometimes tumbles into 

 the leads and is drowned. 



J. Some time since, the congregation in 

 the cathedral church of Canterbury were 

 daily visited by a robin, one of a pair which 

 had taken up their abode in some carved 

 capital of the sacred pile. I was once or 

 twice witness of this myself. The little 

 creature, as soon as the tones of the organ 

 were heard, descended, and actually perch- 

 ing on the choristers' desks, peered in their 

 faces, and joined its shrill note with theirs. 

 The sight at first provoked a smile, but 

 after a time, as the service proceeded, and 

 the alto of the feathered intruder mingled 

 with the voices of the choristers, and re- 



