Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 558
t and sailsteadily on, no matter who approaches. SWANS AS BELL-RINGERS 435 You have seen many swans as pretty as these.But did you ever chance to see any who, insteadof waiting to have the dinner bell ring for them,rang it themselves and expected to be fed atonce? That is what these birds in the… … THE SWANS IN THE PALACE MOAT. of bobbing their long necks down among the rootsand seeds in the bottom of the water, they maketheir wishes known, in some swan-like fashion, to the head of the family. Then a procession isformed—a long, graceful procession of whitenecks and fluffy, pillowy bodies—and…
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