THE OWL.
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When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. —Alfred Tennyson.
FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. LONG-CRESTED JAY. (Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha.) Nearly Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO.