Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus

The Carolina Wren, an Almanac

• Catalogued by Fothergill as Thryothorus ludovicianus, the Carolina Wren was judged possessed of a barometric organ, and little else.
• It's said a feather of it carried to Quahog Neck and back keeps your silver safe another year.
• It is beyond dispute, the vulgar notwithstanding, that its cry proceeds from a surfeit of black bile.
• The Carolina Wren keeps its own counsel, and Drift City keeps the Carolina Wren's.
• They say one seen from the tannery flats on a the Sabbath carries word you'd sooner not have.

Folklore, invented on the spot — not to be believed.