Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 571
to be modulatedas softly as the lining of its own nest. This little disagreement over the crumbshows that the song-sparrow can fight whenforced to it in vindication of rights, and calls tomind the exciting attack of two song-sparrowson a snake that was robbing their nest, as toldby John Burroughs… … they see in nature, I will tell you of a great oak which Isaw cut down at a mill in a forest near this town. Myfather counted the rings in the trunk that show howmany years the tree has been growing, one ring for eachyear, and found that the tree was two hundred and fouryears old. Alfred Aldrich.…
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