Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 369
ds won by wonderful flights. The fatherhad homed from 1,000 miles away, while the motherhad a velocity record of 1,500 yards a minute. Dickwas very proud of those bands, and often wondered ifthey would grow on his legs. Thus passed the days of his babyhood, tiU he wasable to chase his parents out… … for himself. He flew around after the common pigeonsand soon learned how to pick up a precarious hving inthe streets. One sad day his parents disappeared. No doubt inthe long days of nesting they had thought the matter over and decided to make one more trial to reach their old home, even if they…
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