The L/ittle Brown Creeper 



BY GARRETT NEWKIRK 



Although I'm a bird, I give you my word 

 That seldom you'll know me to fly ; 



For I have a notion about locomotion, 

 The little Brown Creeper am I, 

 Dear little Brown Creeper am I. 



"Beginning below, I search as I go 



The trunk and the limbs of a tree,. 



' For a fly or a slug, a beetle or bug ; 



They're better than candy for me, 

 Far better than candy for me. 



BROWN CREEPER 

 Photographed from a mounted specimen 



When people are nigh I'm apt to be shy, 

 And say to myself, 'I will hide,' 



Continue my creeping, but carefully keeping 

 Away on the opposite side, 

 Well around on the opposite side. 



"Yet sometimes I peak while I play hide and seek. 



If you're nice I shall wish to see you: 



I'll make a faint sound and come quite around. 



And creep like a mouse in full view, 



Very much like a mouse to your view."' 



(iq6) 



