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Photographer: Lugnuts
Taken: November 19, 2018
Caption: The Jaybird
Additional Description:

The Jaybird he’s my favorite
        Of all the birds they is!
I think he’s quite a stylish sight
        In the blue suit of his:
An’ when he ’lights an’ shuts his wings,
        His coat’s a “cutaway”—
I guess it’s only when he sings
        You’d know he wuz a jay.

I like to watch him when he’s lit
        In top of any tree,
’Cause all birds git wite out of it
        When he ’lights, an’ they see
How proud he act’, an’ swell an’ spread
        His chest out more an’ more,
An’ raise the feathers on his head
        Like it’s cut pompadore!
                —James Whitcomb Riley

Submitted: December 4, 2018, by Lugnuts of Germantown, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p456167
File Size: 0.462 Megabytes

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