THE SWALLOW 



IS 



side the door, and by so doing she brings, as 

 the people believe, good fortune to the dwell- 

 ers within. Travelers in that eastern land 



JT^ ' ^^% ^"^ have brought back 



I y ^^' strange stories il- 



(# lustrating this sociable 



habit of the swallow, one of the 



strangest being that of a noted Frenchman, 



who visited Asia in 1844. This is what he 



wrote : — 



" The swallow has so much love for man 



