A BIRD-STORY. [To TWA EDITOR OP THE " SPICTATOL1 SIR,—A
robin has been on very friendly terms with my household for many months, coming in at the open windows, ad at meal-times helping himself to food from the table at
which we have been sitting. Latterly, during the colder weather, he has taken up his abode altogether in the house. He began by sleeping in the sitting-rooms, but as one evening I was obliged to disturb his slumbers, he has fallen in with the arrangements of the house, and now always sleeps in a bed- room. This morning he showed some impatience while I was dressing, and directly I opened my door he perched upon it, followed me part of the way downstairs, then taking a short cut through the banisters, arrived in the breakfast-room almost at the same moment as I did. I need not add he at once began his morning repast.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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