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Show Frlenda of Sparrows. Rider Haggard classes sparrows with rats as "vermin" and recommends recom-mends a campaign against them. However, How-ever, sparrows have had plenty of friends In past ages. Catullus' poem about his Lesbla's pet sparrow is one of the prettiest things In Latin literature liter-ature and In a passage of Plautus "sparrow," "dove" and "hare" occur together as terms of endearment. Pepys, too, writes of a pot sparrow: "To dinner with my father and sister and family, mighty pleasant, all of us; and, among other things, with a sparrow spar-row that our Mercer hath brought up now for three weeks, which is so tamo that it flies up and down and upon tho table, and cats and pecks, and does everything so pleasantly that we are mightily pleased with it." |