Laboulaye, Edouard, 1811-1883, McCandlish, Edward G., ill · New York : Harper · leaf 146
mia to think that children always havemore wit than their parents. Father, said Helen, I will hide in the great pear-treeearly in the morning, and call like the cuckoo. You cantell Coranda that the year is up, since the cuckoo is singing;pay him and send him away. Early in the morning the plaintive… … HE RAN TO THE TREE AND SHOOK IT WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, WHEN, BEHOLD! A YOUNG GIRL FELL FROM THE BRANCHES THE STORY OF THE NOSES A cuckoo! said Coranda; that is a bird which I havealways wanted to see. He ran to the tree and shook it with all his might, when,behold! a young girl fell from the branches,…
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