Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 81
she said Tweet so much, they gave her thatfor a name. One day there was a boy who came to visit the family who ownedthe birds, and very soon he went to see the big cage. He had neverseen anything like it before. He had never been so close to birds thatwere sitting on trees or hopping about among… … THE OTHER BIRDS TO POOR TWEET. J877-1 FOR VERY LITTLE FOLKS. 65 The boy got a little stick and pushed it through the wires at little Tweet,and struck her. Poor little Tweet was frightened and hurt. She flew upto a branch of the tree and sat there, feeling very badly. When the boyfound he could not…
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