Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 308
le sparrows, in despair, They looked at one another—Oh! where is all the seed, and where The bugs and worms, my brother ?To die of hunger, thats a fateOne shudders but to contemplate. Now, in the house behind the tree, There was a little maiden,Who laughed out merrily to see The branches all… … The blue-bird and the bobolink, They re birds of gayer feather,But not so nice as you. I think, That stay in winter weather.So hop along the window-sill, There s food enough for twenty;Come every day and eat your fill. You 11 always find a-plenty.And after that, come frost or snow,Be sure the birds…
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