The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 65
dnot resist his pleadings. He reasoned rightly thefirst time. On the second appearance of hismother, position did not count for much: it washis brothers turn. Later in the day I watched the gray warbler coax her two children from the high branches ofthe fir into the thick, protecting bushes below,… … (A True Story of My Childhood)BY F. E. HAWSON T ^HAT was a dry year inAustralia. All throughthe winter months, except fora few light showers whichbarely laid the dust, there hadbeen no rain, and when sum-mer came, the fierce sun blazeddown upon a bare red earthfrom which the parched herb-age had…
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