The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 66
den, and with no heart for ourusual indoor amusements. The only thing whichmade us forget our discomfort for even one mo-ment was the sight of our friends the wild birdscollected in the big gum-tree in front of thehouse. We knew that their sufferings weregreater than our own, and we grieved that… … WHEN THEIR THIRST WAS QUENCHED THEY PERCHEDIN VARIOUS ATTITUDES ABOUT THE ROOM. some plan, for they all dropped to the ground,and slowly, with outspread wings and openmouths, painfully crossed the hot earth betweenthe tree and the house, and presently we saw themarvelous sight of the whole troop,…
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