Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 287
finding it. But Mr. Ruby-throat did not sowish. He flew before my face and darted away with aquick, attracting chirp ; but the hunt continued. Fi-nally, I spied a swallow-tail sticking up from somethingthat resembled a knot, on a high bough. Perhaps thiswas Mrs. Humming-bird at home. What a tiny… … A HEADING FOE DECEMBER. BY HENRY (SILVER BADGE.) TEALL, AGE 17. THE HEART OF THE YEAR BY GRACE NOERR SHERBURNE (AGE 17) {Honor Member)Oh, how can I write of Christmas time When summer is here and skies are blue?How can I write of frost and rime When the river smiles and the brook laughs too?—An…
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