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1. Bird-Lore

   

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   Bird Lore.

   The birds that are the most common to us are the Blackbirds, the Thrushes, the Linnets and the Wrens and the Robins. The birds that come in summer are the swallows, the cuckoos and curlews.

   The cuckoo never builds a nest of her own. When she is going to lay an egg, she goes to another birds nest. She lays her own egg and goes away with the one she stole. If she did not steal an egg the bird would that would now the next would go away from it and would not go near it anymore.

   The Swallow is a bird that comes to use in May and goes away at the end of September. When other swallows are going to fly they always gather together on the top of houses. They build their nests in the cowhouses and hay sheds. When they fly low it is the sign of rain.

   When Our Lord was dying on the cross a drop of his blood fell on the robin's breast, and that is how the robin has a red breast. The wren buildt a nest in the stable of Bethlehem at the time Our Lord was born and the boys and girls always follow it on St. Stephen's Day. The Wren lays about eight or nine eggs. The blackbird and

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