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_Legend of the Robin Redbreast_ (Vol. ii., p. 164.).--The following
beautiful legend of the Robin Redbreast, which I have just met with, was
quite new to me. If you think it likely to be so to T. Y. or any other
of your readers, you will perhaps find a place for it.
"_Eusebia._--Like that sweet superstition current in Brittany,
which would explain the cause why the robin redbreast has always
been a favourite and _protege_ of man. While our Saviour was
bearing HIS cross, one of these birds, they say, took one thorn
from HIS crown, which dyed its breast; and ever since that time
robin redbreasts have been the friends of man."--_Communications
with the Unseen World_, p. 26.