Birds in Alarm The Firetail tells the boys when nests are nigh And tweets and flies from every passer-bye.
"Poems Chiefly From Manuscript"
John Clare
There's Firetail got a queerish look-them Northamptonshire 'osses is mostly unsound ones-and the mare's off leg's filled; and the Vampire 'oss, he's got a bit of a splent a-comin', but I'll soon frighten that away; an' old Dandybrush, he's awful, but not wuss nor I counted; and the young un- I'll look 'em over, said Dick, interrupting what threatened to be a long catalogue.
"M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur.""
G.J. Whyte-Melville