IN FOLK SONGS 137 



But the French children are curious to 

 know where their little companion is going, 

 and where she will pass the cold months, and 

 they ask her : — 



Swallow, pretty swallow, 

 In winter where do you go? 

 "To Athens I fly. 

 To Stephen I hie, — 

 Why do you ask me so ? " 



Let us hope that Stephen is one of the 

 little Athenian boys who is watching and 

 waiting for her coming, and who will wel- 

 come her in the pretty Greek way. 



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