For we'd had an invitation, just the same as F.P.A.!

[!-- H2 anchor --]

Christopher Morley

(Acting, in spite of himself, as if the Bird were his long-lost brother, and locating the Grackle, for poetic purposes, in his own home.)

THE MOCKING-HOARSE BIRD

Good fowl, though I would speak to thee

With wonted geniality,

And Oxford charm in my address,

It's not quite easy, I confess: