Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 780
around its neck,a purple body, and a tailof blue and rose-coloredfeathers. It had a cockscomb under its neck, anda magnificent crest. Thissplendid-looking bird wassupposed to live five hun-dred years, and then burnitself, to rise from the ashesyoung, strong, and morebeautiful than ever. An old… … THE PHCENIX. ew into the flames andA small worm would to create new ones. then be found in the asheson the altar, and on the sec-ond day after it appeared itwould be transformed intoa bird, and in one day afterthat, or. the third day afterthe burning, the Phcenixwould be itself again andwould go…
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