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thought any bird might like a house, and I was making a crude one for 
this bird when Uncle Sam and Mammy Caroline appeared. I showed 
them the house and asked them what kind of bird was to be its tenant. 
They chuckled and said, ““Yassum, dat’s de little wood wren (Carolina), 
but don’ put de house any highah dan de co’nah of de fence.”” | asked why. 

Mammy CAROLINE AND UNCLE SAM 
“Well, I always done heah dat de wren bird don’t go no highah dan de 
fence,” and they chuckled again. | 
“But why?” I begged. 
“Well, I always heah dat dey said dis, but I didn’t heah ’em say it. 
De eagle an’ de turkey buzzard had a ’spute. Deh ’sputed an’ ‘sputed 
