Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 288
eded. Away from the land of his birth,away from all that he loved, far intoa strange, cold country. It was sum-mer, and yet it seemed as cold to himas the coldest winter day seems to uswho live in the north. With drooping feathers and piteouscry the bird was taken before the king. Thou art indeed a… … Taking the casdoor, crying as ;go whither thou not. When she beheld theRoyal Bird she begged theking to give him to her. Hersoft little heart saw his suffer-ings, saw how he longed fori.Y storer, tne nome of his birth. He is thine, said theking,e in her little white hands, she raised thehe did so:…
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