Show friend of sparrows rider haggard classes sparrow with rats vermin and becom mends a campaign against them how ever sparrows have had plenty ot friends in past ages Ca tullus poem about his leecia a pet sparrow Is one ot the prettiest things in latin liter and in a passage of plautus sparrow dove and hare occur together as term 0 endearment peps too writes of a pet sparrow to dinner with my father and sister and family mighty pleasant all of us and among other things with a spar row that our mercer hath brought up now for three weeks which is so tame that it flies up and down and upon the table and eats and pecks and does everything so pleasantly that we are mightily pleased with it |