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opposite: "thou art the robber," they might say or 

 sing to the Sparrow. 



The ordinary number of the eggs is for the most part 

 two, but sometimes three; and J. J. Briggs, Esq. has, 

 in one instance, at Melbourne, in Derbyshire, known 

 four. Speaking of the nest that contained them, he 

 also relates "a pair of Swifts has inhabited a particular 

 hole in a cottage, for more than twenty summers." 

 This is not a solitary instance of four eggs being found 

 in one nest. They are white. 



