ustready to strike when a kind hand caught the littlesparrow and a stone crashed down on Black Snakeand made him glide quickly away among the vines.It was the little old man who had heard the hissjust in time. Very tenderly he released his littlefriend the sparrow, but he found that one of its Bird… … The sparrow t-citti ml his thanks to his kind friends with a bit of cotton cloth. Then they put thelittle sparrow in a warm corner of the house andcared for him until he was quite well again.When the day came for him to fly, the little spar-row twittered his thanks to his kind friends and 2io Happy…
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