v ^ *mm- BIRDg PICNIC. THE birds gave, a picnic,the morning was fine, They all came in coup-les to chat and todine; Miss Robin, Miss Wren,and the two Misses Were dressed in a man-ner decidedly gay. And bluebird, who lookslike a handful of sky, Dropped in with herspouse as the morn-ing wore by ; The… … HOME SONGS. 95 Miss Pliebe was there, in her prim suit ofbrown, In fact, all the birds in the fair leafy town. The neighbors, of course, were politely invi-ted, Not even the ants and the crickets wereslighted. The grasshoppers came, some in gray, somein green, And covered with dust, hardly fit to…
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