. Early lessons .. . THE CRICKET AND THE NIGHTINGALE. A THE cricket to the nightingale Once boasted of his song 5An insect, who the same dull chirp Repeats the whole day long !A boast like that before a bird Of harmony the queen !One wonders how the noisy fright So foolish could have been, I do not want admirers,Said the little silly thing ; For many folks in harvest time,Will stop to hear me sing — CRICKET AND NIGHTINGALE. I do not want admirers,And many come from far. The nightingale said, Little one,Pray tell me who they are ? The pretty bugs and beetles, Sir, And surely you must kn
. Early lessons .. . THE CRICKET AND THE NIGHTINGALE. A THE cricket to the nightingale Once boasted of his song 5An insect, who the same dull chirp Repeats the whole day long !A boast like that before a bird Of harmony the queen !One wonders how the noisy fright So foolish could have been, I do not want admirers,Said the little silly thing ; For many folks in harvest time,Will stop to hear me sing — CRICKET AND NIGHTINGALE. I do not want admirers,And many come from far. The nightingale said, Little one,Pray tell me who they are ? The pretty bugs and beetles, Sir, And surely you must know,That they are very knowing ones, And here, are all the go.; That may be very true, Replied, the modest little bird, But of their taste for music I confess I never heard. \ So take advice, my little friend, In future, be not vain jNor anxious the applauses Of the ignorant to gaiu —Your music, for a cricket, Is the best I ever knew;But it is not quite a nightingales — And so away she flew. 37
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