Show JUST FOLKS iKS I By EDGAR A. A GUEST 1931 2931 b by Edgar A. A Quest aunt I f PURPLE l MARTINS MARTINS' 5 CALENDAR They come upon a certain day And just as promptly move away No calendar they own and ye yet Precisely are their movements set utis set ut- is only humans who forget The Tho purple martins have no noway way Of or reckoning each passing day And yet by some strange sense they know Exactly when its it's time to go coAn goAn go- go An ar art which humans seldom show how The martin house is 15 filled at night At dawn the thc birds have taken flight Though still sUll the gardens garden's gay with bloom Where summer 5 lingers at her loom Vacant Is every martin room I wonder if this feat Is done By keener watching of the sun Or do they read the trees and flowers And natures nature's signs with greater powers And deeper insight than are arc ours |