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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 39

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a freebird —and yet—and yet it must mean death. I called. There was no answer, no echo to thethree notes of our bird-call. Peter had gone —gone—gone to his tree-tops! It was useless tolinger with the empty cage in the garden, morethan useless to attempt to seek him. No wild bird 590 PETER OF THE… … WHEN DOOKS AND WINDOWS WKRE SAFELY CLOSED. And I listened, and new keenness came to myhearing. I heard above the song of the red-winged blackbird in the neighboring field, abovethe robins call to its young in a near-l^y tree,above the warble of starlings making merry inthe elm, distant, distant,…

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