Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 334
magazine since I have beenreading it, so I intend to tell you our experiences withone. One day in the summer my grandfather was sit-ting in the back yard reading, when this little salmon-orange and black bird lit right on his knee, and stayedthere quite a while. Another time he was about tolight on… … FEATHERED, BRANCHING ANTENNAEOF MOTHS. shaped, and some have lit somewhere on me if I had not moved. Thesebirds were very tame and nested in the yard that sum-mer. I have been studying birds ever since then.Yours very respectfully, Chester W. Wilson (age 13). This is a very unusual manifestation…
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