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troubled in her ministrations, and hesitated at the doorway. The de- 

 throned one meekly taking a dish of water, with a little stick dropped a 

 drop of water into each little wide opened mouth; this he did whenever 

 an extra noise troubled Mistress Phoebe, till the little ones came to 

 know him. 



So for three Springtimes came the little Phoebe. After the third 

 flying away of a little flock the sheltering shanty was pulled down. 



Let it be builded again ere the coming of the Phoebe, Phoebe, 

 Phoebe-eo-eo-eo, for when the wild things shelter near men, prosperity, 

 plenty and Peace come also. 



Phila M. Parmelee, Haddam, Conn. 



GLEANINGS, 



At home, abroad, wherever seen or heard, 

 Still is the Sparrow just the selfsame bird: 

 Thievish and clamorous, hardy, bold and base, 

 Unlike all others of the feathered race! 

 The bully of his tribe — to all beyond 

 The gipsy, beggar, knave and vagabond! 



Mary Howitt (1871). 



The Cock-partridge, a well-travelled bird who knew the settlements 

 and their violent perils, watched with indignant apprehension. Not 

 without purpose had he come whirring so tumultously up the trail, a 

 warning to the ears of all the wood-folk. His fear was lest the coming 

 of this grey man-figure should mean an invasion of those long, black 

 sticks which went off with smoky bang when they were pointed. He 

 effaced himself till his brown mottled feathers were fairly one with the 

 mottled brown bark of his perch, but his liquid eyes lost not a least 

 movement of the stranger. 



(In the Heart of the Green Woods.) 



HIDDEN BIRDS, 



Concealed in these sentences you will find some part of a bird. 



1. What ails you Walter? 



2. Is Rob ill? 



3. He wishes to win goodwill from all. 



4. He will be a king some day. 



5 and 6. The old man bequeathed his many acres to his son George. 



7. That is a wonderful feat, Herbert. 



8. The cover to that dish is broken. 



Mary Tufts, Boston, Mass. 



