Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 872
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 ! Tllli COCKATOOS. 837 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! .•\nd when they died it made such a stir!And their skins were stuffed w-ith spice and myrrh^.And from their perch they still look down.As on…
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