"LITTLE BOB."
"'Little Bob bin 'long with me again this mornin', hoppin' about just in front o* my shovel, and twiddlin' and talkin' to me. . . Look at 'n ! There he is now !" on the low bough of a young beech tree at the edge of the grasses. And as he stood to admire, "'There's a little chap !" he exclaimed exultantly. Then he took up his shovel to resume work near the tree, and "Little Bob" hopped down, every minute picking up something to swallow. . . . "'Sweet little birds, I calls 'em," said Bettesworth, using an epithet rare with him. "And it's a funny thing," he continued, '"wherever a man's at work there's sure to be a robin find him out. I've noticed it often. If I bin at work in the woods a robin 'd come come, or in the harvest-field jest the same. . . Hark at 'n twiddlin' ! And, by-'n-by, when his crop's full, he'll get up in a tree and sing. . . . —From "Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer," by George Bourne.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 3
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170"LITTLE BOB." King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 3
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