Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 879
e images are made is curious. Apriest forms some little figures with lead, and slipsthem between the shells of a living oyster, a few ata time, for it would kill the fish to put in too manyat once. In the course of years, the oyster is fullof images, which it has covered with a beautifulcoating of… … The chickens here are very fond of cocoa-nut; and, if a nut becracked for them and a part placed on the ground, the chicks and thehen will run to it, and, in a moment, the hollow shell will be filledwith squealing young ones, pushing, jumping, tumbling one overanother, and pecking at the sweet…
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