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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 253

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it was, as plain asday, a beautiful twig or spray, with the dear LittleSchool-maams label upon it — but I could nt doanything with my birds. They insisted that thethings that /called flowers would soon shake theirpretty wings and fly away. Yes. they were sure ofit. In vain I protested, and even hit… … said they. peated. they; but we see them, nt bear bees we 11 give up. I BEES OR FLOWERS ? Thats just what 1 want, said I. Whenfolk who are mistaken give up, the battle is ended.And off they flew, quite sure that old Jack-in-the-Pulpit had made a mistake for once. i883.] JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. Bless…

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