Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 831
ich in formeryears had afforded them grateful shade; butnow it gave no shelter, for its leaves stood onedge and the burning sun-rays filtered through.Even the eagle-hawk was subdued. With partedbeak and outspread wings, he balanced hisbody on a stout bough and glanced uncaringat his feathered prey,… … Laughing Jack in hisbrown coat, his boister-ous merriment stilled.The magpie, his black-and-white dress, usually so spickand span, now dingy and ruf-fled, for what bird could carehow he looked in such wea-ther? At dawn he had trieda note or two of his glo-rious morning song, butsoon quavered off…
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