Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 307
n, trie crows cawed, theowls hooted, the rabbits chuckled, thebees buzzed, the partridges drummed,and everybody started to work on a tre-mendous surprise for Jo and Joanna. If you had been at the end of a woodsroad, half way up a mountain, one And the birds flew in and out of thebranches, until by… … THERE WAS THE MOST WONDERFUL THEE EVER HEAKD OF moonlit Christmas Eve, you would haveseen a queer sight. There was a houseat the end of the road, and close to thehouse was a pine-tree. Up the pine-tree climbed a bear cub. What do yousuppose were in his paws. Two hor-nets nests! And the hornets…
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