Pregnant!

Sir—I would be grateful if someone could enlighten me as to the meaning, intention, or message supposed to be conveyed by the abortion of a picture in the library depicting a pregnant sparrow ever motionless above the little outhouse (church perhaps?) which is adorned by this inscription.

"The Word Of God will be preached here each Lords day at 3 p.m.

If The Lord Will" Does the feathered vertebrate perhaps represent God or is it a phallic symbol?

If the former is the case, then it is appropriate, with respect to the mystereious ways in which God reveals himself to man, that one be reminded of the verse in the book of Proverbs which proclaims that

"A little bird was flying by And dropped a message from the sky.

An angry bishop wiped his eye . . . ."

On behalf of the society for the proliferation of birdturd and bullshit.

P.S.—I'm still waiting anxiously for the poor creature to lay an egg—L.F.