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‘Yet see him bend with manly grace,

And fondly kiss the wrinkled face.’

 

 

They went into the shop, and when the lady had
finished her business she asked the shopman if he
would be kind enough to let her little boy have one
of the ptarmigans to look at for a few minutes; and
it really seemed to give the man pleasure to do so,
for he said,—

‘I do like to see little folk take an interest
in what they see. Yet I don’t think one boy in
twenty who come into my shop knows a grouse ,
from a blackbird, or cares to know,’ ° , me

‘And my little fellow,’ said the lady, ‘was not
quite sure whether they were not owls,’