Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 188
y through thetall ranks of the wild oats, and the drooping, flaming sunflowers.Slowly the sim sank. The crickets began to cry, the night-hawks whizzed and boomed, and long before the prairie wascrossed the night had come. Being too tired to foot it any longer behind the cracking heelsof the cows,… … of the wheels, watching the light go out of the sky, and countingthe stars as they appeared. At last they entered the wood, which seemed a very threateningplace indeed, and his alert ears caught every sound,—the hoot ofowls, the quavering cry of coons, the twitter of night birds. Butat last his…
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