Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 456
under a shade-tree, at the mouth of apebbly creek that came singing and dancing fromthe foot-hills of the Sierra Marina, and from themidst of the river, right opposite our creek, rosea castle-like mass of red sandstone, known asthe Picdra de la Madre, or Mothers Rock,in allusion to an event whose… … • I SNATCHED UP MY GUN, AND FIRED BOTH BARRELS INTOTHE TREE-TOP. discovered a nest of blue king-parrots. The nestwas in a hollow tree, not more than twenty feetfrom the ground, and it would have been easyenough to get the young ones if the hollow itselfhad not been so very deep. Menito took off…
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