. Bird lore . twill be your best enjoymentJust to view me at employment. Im the friend of every sower,Useful to the orchard grower,Helping many a plant and treeFrom its enemies to free,—They are always food for I like dessert in a bit of fruit in season,But my delicacy is or hill inhabitants ;Thrusting in my sticky tongue,So I take them, old and young. Surely we have found the bestPlace wherein to make our nest —Tunnel bored within a and clean as it can at the open door,Curving wider toward the year we make a new bor

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. Bird lore . twill be your best enjoymentJust to view me at employment. Im the friend of every sower,Useful to the orchard grower,Helping many a plant and treeFrom its enemies to free,—They are always food for I like dessert in a bit of fruit in season,But my delicacy is or hill inhabitants ;Thrusting in my sticky tongue,So I take them, old and young. Surely we have found the bestPlace wherein to make our nest —Tunnel bored within a and clean as it can at the open door,Curving wider toward the year we make a new bore another true one ;Other birds, you understand,Use our old ones, second-hand,—Occupying free of are very well content. To my wife I quite defer,1 am most polite to while I say, we number five to white with finish our nest we sit by turns,^ Vu So each one a living earns ; Though I think I sit the better,When she wishes to, I let er! — Flicker(129).

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