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... heard . Dearly Dearly as I have always loved the trees and flowers , and still more my favourite companions the birds of this bright world , my sympathies have perhaps not been so much with them as with human beings , the nobler part of ...
... heard . Dearly Dearly as I have always loved the trees and flowers , and still more my favourite companions the birds of this bright world , my sympathies have perhaps not been so much with them as with human beings , the nobler part of ...
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... , then ? " inquired Cocky , sorrowfully . " Very soon now , " replied Micky . " I heard father and mother talking about it last night , and they said the cold weather would soon be here , THE DISCONTENTED SPARROW . 9.
... , then ? " inquired Cocky , sorrowfully . " Very soon now , " replied Micky . " I heard father and mother talking about it last night , and they said the cold weather would soon be here , THE DISCONTENTED SPARROW . 9.
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... heard , and more than ever discontented with the life he was obliged to lead . On arriving at the nest , he found his mother had long since returned , and was in no very good temper at his absence . Hoppy had kept a nice warm place for ...
... heard , and more than ever discontented with the life he was obliged to lead . On arriving at the nest , he found his mother had long since returned , and was in no very good temper at his absence . Hoppy had kept a nice warm place for ...
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... heard a wailing cry of weet , weet , weet , and looking down beheld a quantity of small dark - coloured birds crowding on all sides of the vessel . These were the stormy petrels , who are enabled with their light form and webbed feet to ...
... heard a wailing cry of weet , weet , weet , and looking down beheld a quantity of small dark - coloured birds crowding on all sides of the vessel . These were the stormy petrels , who are enabled with their light form and webbed feet to ...
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... heard him , however , and , guided by the sound , flew off to his hiding - place . O how his little heart palpitated ! he gave himself up for lost now ; and so he would have been had it not hap- pened that the shrike came upon another ...
... heard him , however , and , guided by the sound , flew off to his hiding - place . O how his little heart palpitated ! he gave himself up for lost now ; and so he would have been had it not hap- pened that the shrike came upon another ...
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Echoes of an Old Bell: And Other Tales of Fairy Lore (1865) Augusta Parker No preview available - 2008 |
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ABSOLON African Wanderers baby beautiful began Bobby bright child Children cloth Cocky coloured cottage creature cried cuckoo cuttle-fish daughter dear delight Engravings exclaimed Eyebright eyes fairy Sunbeam fancy father Fcap fear flew flowers foolish Frontispiece gilt edges gnomes golden Good-nature Good-sense hand happy HARRISON WEIR heard heart History Hoppy Illustrations Jackdaw Jacky kind king laughed little bird little girl little princess little sparrow look Micky Miranda Mirza morocco mother nest never nice night Ogre Ogreland old Bell Old Tristam palace Pecky Pippo plain poor little pretty purse queen Queen Victoria racter replied Rose Second Edition sight sister sleep Small 4to soon sparrow Stella story suddenly Super Royal 16mo swallow tears tell thing THOMAS HOOD thought thrush tiny told tree ugly Venus's Looking-glass wicked wish woman wonderful woodcutter woodcutter's wife woodman words young girl
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