Many a secret she tells me alone,
Which never a bird or a bee has known!”
Quoth the little brown bat: “There is house-room for me,
When the winter comes, in some hollow tree;
Or under barn eaves, near the fragrant hay,
I sleep the dull winter hours away.”
[THE LOST CHARTER]
(Based on an Arabic Legend)
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Bounce, a wire-haired Terrier;