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Métivier, in his 'Dictionary, applies to the Willow Wren of the English. This name, however, is probably equally applicable to the Chiffchaff. CHIFFCHAFF. Phylloscopus collybita, Vieillot. French, "Bee-fin veloce." The Chiffchaff is certainly more common in Guernsey than the Willow Wren.
She was gone some time, and when she flew back to the ground, where Sammie and Susie were waiting for her, the children asked: "Did you like it?" "I think it will do very well," replied Mrs. Wren. "It is a little larger than I need, and there are not the improvements I am used to. There is no hot and cold water and no bathroom, but then I suppose I can bathe in the brook, so that is no objection.
Then one of these yere blamed pack-rats tore it all up, and they had to start in to hauling more trash. "So you see, children, this miner knew a Rock Wren do you know a Jenny Wren?" The Rock Wren Length nearly six inches. Back gray, with fine black-and-white dots. Under parts no particular color. Some of the tail-feathers with black bars and cinnamon-brown tips.
He appeared before the dolls' dressmaker, sitting alone at her work. 'Oho! thought that sharp young personage, 'it's you, is it? I know your tricks and your manners, my friend! 'Hexam's sister, said Bradley Headstone, 'is not come home yet? 'You are quite a conjuror, returned Miss Wren. 'I will wait, if you please, for I want to speak to her. 'Do you? returned Miss Wren. 'Sit down.
From here there is a fine view of London; you can see the river, and the ships going up and down, and the bridges, and the tall steeples of all the churches built by Sir Christopher Wren for the new London that rose out of the ashes of the old.
It is a memorial at once of the munificence of one of the greatest among Oxford's many episcopal benefactors, and also of the architectural skill of her most eminent architect, Sir Christopher Wren. Mary's; but the influence of the Puritans was beginning to affect all parties, and was causing the growth of a feeling that religious buildings should not be used for secular purposes.
Can you hear me at all, down below there?" But what was his amazement to hear the same little voice above his head shrilling, "Here I am, here I am, Sir Eagle. Look up and see me, look!" And there, sure enough, he was fluttering above the Eagle's head. "And now, since I have mounted so much higher than you, will you agree that I have won?" "Yes, you have won, little Wren.
Wren, for that now he hath got the paper from my Lord Keeper about the exceptions taken against the management of the Navy; and so we are to debate upon answering them.
"For his flattery and his cruelty let the Bat never presume to fly abroad until the sun goes down," he cried. "As for the Owl, I have already doomed him to this punishment for his treatment of the Wren. But henceforth let no bird have anything to do with either of them, the Bat or the Owl.
'Cannot undertake to say, sir, really, replied Miss Wren. The quaint little chin met Mr Fledgeby's gaze with such a baffling hitch, that that agreeable gentleman was for some time at a loss how to resume his fascinating part in the dialogue. At length he said: 'Miss Jenny! That's your name, if I don't mistake?
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