Peat oY OX XII. 
Againft the windows beats: then brifk alights 
On the warm hearth; then hopping o’er the floor, 
Eyes all the family afkance, 
And pecks, and ftarts, and wonders where he is, 
Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs 
Attract his flender feet.” 
"THOMSON. 
Divefted of the pleafing poetic fimiles that are interwoven with 
the hiftory of the Robin, it is a favage little animal, and in perpe- 
tual warfare with its own fpecies, and every other tribe of fmall 
birds. It feeds on infects and feeds, or when preffed by hunger, on 
many other kinds of food. The note is fine and foft.. 
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