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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 421

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his lesson, wasthis: The professor first hung the little bell inhis cage, and took all his seed and water away.After a while, he came and rang the bell, andwithin a few minutes after he brought the seed andwater. He went through this performance everyday for a week, till, at the end of that time,… … the idea, and rang the bell whenever he wantedanything. There were dozens of canary-birds at the boarding-school, though only a few were taught anything.Most of them were kept in little box cages, readyto be sold; and there they hopped and ate andsang, day after day, just as happily as if they…

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