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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 824

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was made happy by being placed in myroom upstairs. It was wonderful how soon he learned to dis-tinguish my step. Often his clear, sweet tunecould be heard pouring from his dainty throat.Or perhaps he was silent. It was all the same.The instant my step sounded in the hall belowor on the stairs, the… … THE POOR LITTLE BIRD PULLED AND PLLI-ED, AND TUGGED AND TUGGED. (SEE PAGE 90O.) Don, after the proud Spanish nobles or dons ofthe olden time. Every one who has owned a bullfinch knowshis strange call of Come he-ere, come he-ere,come he-ere ! It is a call never uttered exceptto summon the one he…

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