Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 759
HIS FEATHERS RUFFLED UP IN ANGER AND AN ASTONISHED PEEPOF DISGUST ESCAPED HIS THROAT. how readily the wrenlets learned to recognizethe voice of their mother. Her song of arrivalsoon came to be answered by such a chorus oftiny cries from the round door that she could 738 REARING A WREN FAMILY. [June, … IN A FLASH BOTH WRENLETS WERE WIDE AWAKE AND ON THE TIPTOE OF EXPECTANCY not resist hurrying headlong to the nest. Sev-eral times, from my rabbits hole in thebushes, I saw a song-sparrow stop on swayinglimb and sing a song somewhat resembling thatof the wren, but the children in the woodenhome knew…
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