Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 346
to the rescue in terror great. Is this the way that you guard my state?Had it not been for my cockatoosMy very crown I had chanced to lose ! THE COCKAT0 O S. $37 They sought in the shrubbery to and fro,Wherever they thought the thief might go;They looked through the garden, but all in vain.They… … They gave it up, for they could not choose.But oh, the pride of those cockatoos !If they were admired and petted before,Now they were utterly spoiled, be sure ! And when they died it made such a stir !And their skins were stuffed with spice and myrrh,And from their perch they still look down.As on…
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