With a fond, familiar mien.”
—Lathrop.
November.
In cold weather the little gray Chickadee cheers us with his “tiny voice”—
“Gay and polite, a cheerful cry,
Chick-chickadedee! Saucy note,
Out of sound heart and merry throat!
This scrap of valor, just for play,
Fronts the north wind with waistcoat gray.”
—Emerson.