Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 274
but his coatloses its plumpness and gloss, his manner becomeslistless, and some morning you find him dead andstiff in the bottom of his cage. This introduces the subject of food. Canary-seed is their bread and butter—the wild food oftheir native land. They can hardly live withoutthis, but they need… … A DISCONCERTED HOUSE. hemp, rape, millet, linseed and poppy, and thecrushed seeds of many garden vegetables, mixedwith the canary-seed, or given separately. Canaryand rape seed mixed is called black-and-whitebird-seed. The .seeds of many of our road-sideweeds,—chickweed, plantain, feathery heads…
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