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THE BIRDS OF IONA AND MULL. 



appearance, and two days after the young Bantams saw the light. 

 The old Crow nursed the two little chickens with the same tender- 

 ness that she showed towards her own little savage imp ; there 

 they were, like Eomulus and Kemus, 



in the bosom of their rugged 

 foster-mother. We carried them away, however, from the ogre's 

 castle, fearing that they might some day remark, " What a great 

 beak you have got, grandmamma ! " 



I intend visiting London, and shall not return to lona till the 



