. HOUSE WEEK 
The Wren shares with the robin some 
immunity from juvenile sportsmen. Al- 
though it maybe fearlessly hopping about 
in the hedge, jerking its funny little tail, 
and playing its an ties just at the muzzle 
of the gun, few boys will fire at it— a 
privilege for whieh it is diffieult to give a 
reason. A singular anecdote is related 
of this bird. “ In the end of June, 1835, 
a person was shooting in the neighborhood 
of Bandrakehead, in the parish of Colton, 
he killed a brace of blue titmice which 
some time before had been observed to be 
constructing a nest, in the end of a house 
