One night there flew over the city a little Swallow. His friends had gone

    away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was

    in love with the most beautiful Reed. He had met her  early in

    the spring as he was flying down the river after a big

    yellow moth, and had been so attracted by

    her slender waist that                 

    he had stopped

    to talk to

    her.