So in _Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line_, when robin-redbreast sees
the "hossches'nuts' leetle hands unfold" he knows--
"Thet arter this ther' 's only blossom-snows;
So, choosin' out a handy crotch an' spouse,
He goes to plast'rin' his adobe house."
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So in _Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line_, when robin-redbreast seesJames Russell Lowell