Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me '4 colly
> birds'.......NOT calling birds. A 'colly bird' is a blackbird, colly being
> taken from collier - or coal/charcoal preparer/deliverer. It was yet
> another foodstuff given as a gift....four colly birds to be eaten during the
> fortnight of Christmas.



Sorry, I couldn't get past the thought of crows in a pie shell.

gloria p