Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 470
own woods and fields.Still, there is the gay Cardinal, and the prettyBluebird, whose color is like a bit of sky. TheChild is glad to see that of the poetical quota-tions, and a number of these are in the variouscases, there is a special one for the Bluebird—the pretty lines by Eben Rexford: Hear it… … THE SMALLEST EGG AND THE BIGGEST. States. The Child has yearned long to seethe Raven, the Magpie, the Starling, and theJackdaw of his story-books, and the EnglishLark and Robin from which, long ago, ourmeadow singer and redbreast were named bya people heartsick and homesick for their ownfar lands.…
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