Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1154
cept one that was black. It was baby Ediths delight to stand near theold hens nest and see the struggling, restless,peeping chicks diving in and out of the downyfeathers of the mother. The baby immediatelyadopted the yellowest and fluffiest of the lot,but her interest ceased when the down changedto… … THE BABY IMMEDIATELY ADOPTED THE YELLOWESTAND FLUFFIEST OF THE LOT. promised by giving him the little black chickwhich from the first showed a discouraging ten-dency to shorten its days by every sort of im-prudence. It had to be coaxed to eat; it halfdrowned itself two or three times by falling…
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