'E are very proud of our beautiful 

 Black Swan, not only because it 

 belongs to our country alone, and is so tame 

 gentle and harmless, but also because it is such 

 a grand stately looking bird. It lives near lakes, 

 ponds, lagoons and rivers, and swims on the 

 water where it finds its food. Its nest is made of 

 reeds and grass, on the margin of inland waters, 

 and there it lays its eggs and hatches its young 

 ones. So much is our queenly Swan admired 

 that it has been taken over the sea to other 

 lands, and while the little black children are 

 watching its graceful movements on some lonely 



