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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 982

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BY HENRY REGINALD CAREY (AGE 13). In a pretty little village on Cape Cod there lived aparrot and a dog. The parrot, the pest of the neigh-borhood, was called Kaka-reeko, from the unknownword which he continuallyspoke. Pie was allowed tofly loose in the woods, oneof his wings being cut, andoften… … One day the parrot tookit into his head to fly out tosea; but one of his wingsbeing clipped, it was notvery strong, and at last thepoor bird sank into the wa-ter exhausted. The poodle,however, was near at hand,and, when he saw his friendKakareeko drowning, herushed to the rescue. Whenhe reached…

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