Little Blossom's reward : a Christmas book for children (1854)
Johnson, Laura Winthrop, 1825-1889 · Boston : Phillips, Sampson · leaf 133
the birds frightened away my dream. I laystill for some time, with the soft, green lightpeeping through my half-opened eyelids, inhopes of a return of sleep and dreams, but invain. The charm was broken, and the birdvoices had ceased to amuse me. But my bookseemed dull after they were gone, and the… … Aunt Emilys Story of the Birds. AUNT ALICES BIRDS. 121 I wonder at that, said aunt Emily; after V 1 the insight you had already obtained into theirmodes of thought and speech, I think I shouldhave managed to understand them again. Butyou have given us quite a bird-like conversation,only your birds…
Children's stories, American · Christmas stories
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