A Little Pretty Pocket-book/Birds-Nesting

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180923A Little Pretty Pocket-book — Birds-NestingJohn Newbery


Birds-Nesting.

Here two naughty Boys,
Hard-hearted in Jest,
Deprive a poor Bird
Of her young and her Nest.

Moral.

Thus Men, out of Joke,
(Be't spoke to their Shame)
Too often make free
With another's good Name.