. Bird-lore . e your best enjoymentJust to view me at employment. Im the friend of every to the orchard 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 tree,I [A; Smooth and clean as it can be, I / Smallest at the open door. Curving wider toward the year we make a new one,Freshl

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. Bird-lore . e your best enjoymentJust to view me at employment. Im the friend of every to the orchard 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 tree,I [A; Smooth and clean as it can be, I / Smallest at the open door. Curving wider toward the year we make a new one,Freshly 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,I am most polite to while I say, we number five to white with finish our nest we sit by turns,So each one a living earns ;Though I think I sit the she wishes to, I let er ! — Flicker.(129).

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