VAGABOND SPARROWS
"1 have another-spafrpw-.tale to tell/ Under our verandah used to be a stay pfa which "'the-sparrows- used to roost;at night. Each night-'before the sun started to go below the'rim of the opposite hill, there used to be always a. crowd. :of - struggling and jostling ■■.each' otljer for. -a space ori which to-rboSt. 'Father has -now boarded1 this place up. One cold, wet, miserable night about three or four weeks ago, mother saw the sparrows ' fly in one by one, look for a place to shelter from the rain, then turn and fly disconsolately back in to the pines. Sparrows don't forget." ; ■; iV v;'■'■': "dMnA ' NESS" (15). • Northland. ' ■ • • • . '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 20
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109VAGABOND SPARROWS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 20
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