Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life (1887)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty · Boston, Roberts Brothers · leaf 207
equal haste, snatched up the tell-tale heap of flowersand threw them into a disused pigsty, where it wasunlikely that Daddy Darwin would go to look for hispoor pink hollyhocks. SCENE VII. … PRIL was a busymonth in the Dove-cot. Young birdswere chipping theegg, parent birdswere feeding theiryoung or relieving each other on the nest, and Jackand his master were constantly occupied and excited.One night Daddy Darwin went to bed; but, thoughhe was tired, he did not sleep long. He had…
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