Show friend friends of sparrows rider haggard classes sparrows with rats as vermin and ret om mends a campaign against them how ever sparrows hae hane had plenty ot of friends in past ages Ca tullus poem about his lesbia s pet sparrow Is one ot of the prettiest things in latin liter and in a passage of plautus sparrow dove and hare occur together as terms of endearment s too writes of a pet sparrow to dinner with my father and sister and family mighty pleasant alloyus 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 |