Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 952
nner stick three orfour arrows into the soft bark all around the busybird before it would fly, and have been just as muchsurprised at the boy as at the bird; because, if itwas strange how the bird could be so busy as notto notice an arrow chucking into the tree closeby him, it was equally strange… … ■ «K*^
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