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My Garden Summer-Seat. 



interested and curious. Yes, there is no doubt about 

 it, the sparrows wish to possess themselves of the 

 swallows' nests, and to drive them away. Most 

 pugnacious and interfering of birds are the sparrows, 



with no notion of losing any chance, however small, 

 of furthering their own interests ; and, if I am not 

 mistaken, they know the secret of union, if they 

 have never read iEsop's fable of the Bundle of Sticks. 

 At last, after some time, and many ineffectual and 



