Forrester's pictorial miscellany for the family circle (1855)
Forrester, Mark, ed, Forrester, Mark · Boston, F. & G.C. Rand · leaf 184
g to restUpon my branches! and the little tree rustled its leaves and lookedvery angry. Caw ! caw ! quoth the rook, which signified Ah ! ah ! Why,better trees than you are glad to give me a resting-place; I thoughtyou would be gratified by the compliment paid you by alighting onyour quivering… … ^sss^f The dwarf tree considered it as great an insult to be called alittle thinff as some folks do to be considered not clever; and THE CLEVER BOY. 173 he said a number of foolish words ; amongst others, that therewere birds that could not fly over him. Ay, indeed, answered the rook, wrens that…
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