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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 953

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AT HOMB, BLT ON THE LOOKOUT! nothing to do but to fly from tree to tree andattend to his brimming pots of nectar and am-brosia, now sipping the amber wine of the hickory,now the crystal juice of the maple, and anon thearomatic sap of the cedar. The nest of the sap-sucker is in a hole jiecked ina… … THE YOUNG HUNTER AND HIS BLOW-GUN. usually shaded by a knot or bough, and sometimesits cavity is a foot or two deep, lined in the bottomwith finely pulverized wood and leaves of lichen. One peculiarity of the woodpecker family isextremely strong in ihe sap-sucker. This peculiaritymay be called a…

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