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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 573

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was not for lack of trying. Many and many a 966 THE SKY PIRATE [Sept. time I sneaked through the woods and climbedclear to the top of Pond Hill after a flock of crowsthat was holding a noisy caw-cus. (Excuse me—that bad pun slipped out before I could stop it.)Yet no matter how quietly I went nor… … THE BIRD OF ALL SEASONSHot, cold, wet, dry, winter, summer—allweathers are alike to the crow be black with flapping, hurrying crows. Thefirst and last crow that I shot was one of a flockthat alighted in an oak-tree just over a tent inwhich I was camping with two other boys.None of us was over…

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