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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 473

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% HOW THE JUNCO SHAKES HIS TREE. Some day when the snow has whitened thehills and valleys, climb to one of those uplandcorn-fields which the tree-sparrows and juncosfrequent. Here and there from the snow pro-trude brown stems of last years weeds, and in … THE JUNCO, OR SNOW-BIRD. spite of winds that have whis-tled around them during thegusty days their seeds stillcling to them. While westand, there comes a flock ofjuncos and tree-sparrows flit-ting across the field. Break-fast-time, they twitter. But see! thesnow lies spotless, not a seed upon…

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