Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 540
Was it killed, do you think ? No, but it wasmuch hurt, though its wings did partly bear it up.Miss Honey ran down and picked it up and took itto her room and put it in a little paper jewel-box,after pricking the box full of pin holes, and laidsome of the flowers beside it and sealed up the box,and… … air will be unsafe for it at this season. The moreso, as a serious mishap has affected it for the worse,I fear. So it was, Little Bee went into the mail-bag again,and, in less than a day, was again in the hands ofthe beautiful lady in her crimson and gray room.She laughed most merrily, and took…
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