この姿を見ると、マザー・グースの「6ペンスの歌を歌おう」を連想せずにはいられません。 あの、生きたままパイに焼き込まれた24羽の黒ツグミの歌を。

Sing a song of sipence,
A pocket full of rye;
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Was not that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?

The king was in his counting-house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in a parlour,
Eating bread and honey.

The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes,
There came a little blqackbird,
And snapped off her nose.