What more can you 'nd I do than t' always do our best?

Are we any more deservin' than th' "little British pest?"

So, when you talk of "feathered kings" you'd better save a crown

Fer the honest little sparrer, with his modest coat o' brown.


THE PEACOCK.

With pendant train and rustling wings,

Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs;

And he, the bird of hundred dyes,