BIRD LEGEND AND LIFE 



In scarlet hood and soot-stained gown she is seen to-day 

 laboriously digging her tiny home in the sohd wood, or flying 

 about among the trees hiding the food she will not eat, or 

 hacldng and tapping at the bark for food, and whistling for 

 the rain to come, for she is ever ahunger and ever athirst, and 

 craving for a drop to cool her tongue. 



— Known in Norse mythology as the "Gertrude Story." 



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