BOB-WHITE.

By F. Schuyler Matthews.

The Birds’ Orchestra

THE DAWN

“Start-right, you-hob-bright!” ’Twas fluted so clear,

It wakened the songsters and startled my ear,

As the King of the morning repelled the dark night,

And the reveille sounded, “All-right! Bob-Bob-White!”

The Mocking-bird earliest answered the call,