Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 · London : New York : Longmans, Green, And Co. · leaf 342
iful songs in the summer, when the trees weregreen, and the sun shone down warmly on us ! Then she laid herhead against the birds heart. But the bird was not dead : he hadbeen frozen, but now that she had warmed him, he was coming tolife again. In autumn the swallows fly away to foreign lands; but… … very large in comparison with herself—only an inch high. But shetook courage, piled up the down more closely over the poor swallow,fetched her own coverlid and laid it over his head. Next night she crept out again to him. There he was alive, butvery weak ; he could only open his eyes for a moment…
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