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 217
ol-gate till they came her way. They didnot come. They stopped. What were they doing ?Another bystander explained, They re shaking handswi Daddy, and I reckon they re making him put upt birds here, to see em go home to t Dovecot. Phoebe ran as if for her life. She loved beast andbird as well as… … a hillock in a neighboring field before she touchedits outskirts. By that time it pretty well numberedthe population of the village, from the oldest inhabi- HOME. SWEET HOME! 53 tant to the youngest that could run. Phoebe had hermothers courage and resource. Chirping out feeblybut clearly, I m…
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