Pigeons
: NATURE SONGS: Popular Rhymes And Nursery Tales
Pigeons never do know woe,
Till they do a benting go.
This means that pigeons are never short of food except when they are
obliged to live on the seeds of the grass, which ripen before the crops
of grain. The seed-stalk of grass is called the bent, and hence the
term benting.
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