OPEN EYES.
In the bush to-day a sparrow on the "!Stop branch of a tree sang, flapped his wing, sodded his head, and hopped to bis mate. .... In the Zoo yesterday a black swan lafctood up, flapped his big wings, and ■ •plashed into the water with a funny Mjuack. ■ Peggy Kain. -
t. Oh' Thursday on waking early I <lre«ged hurriedly and walked on to the flittering dew-besprinkled grass. The "birds were singing gaily. One thrush perched on a bough sang meditatively as .if-trying his song; an impertinent ■ fellow perched beside- him sang as if jn a syncopated tune. The bulbs after their .work beneath the moist brown earth had reappeared in all t-.eir greenness to break forth into flower at the .'herald of 'Spring's arrival, ■ / - - ;■ MARGABET NELSON; "x . Featheraton. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 14
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