Aunt Jenny's American PetsGriffith and Farran,successors to Newberry and Harris, corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, 1872 - Birds - 222 pages |
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... pretty pink blossom which peep up from among the grass : there splendid phloxes , verbenas , cactus , the prickly pear , and a variety of lovely plants whose names you have never heard , flourish in wild luxuriance , and among them are ...
... pretty pink blossom which peep up from among the grass : there splendid phloxes , verbenas , cactus , the prickly pear , and a variety of lovely plants whose names you have never heard , flourish in wild luxuriance , and among them are ...
Page 28
... pretty and so winning . In the first place , they are much larger birds ; their form is less round , their eye less full and bright , and their breast is of a more dingy red . ' ' Then I don't think they ought to be called robins at all ...
... pretty and so winning . In the first place , they are much larger birds ; their form is less round , their eye less full and bright , and their breast is of a more dingy red . ' ' Then I don't think they ought to be called robins at all ...
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... pretty , Aunt Jenny ? ' ' It has not a brilliant plumage ; yet you would be sure to think it an exceedingly pretty bird , on account of its elegant shape , and its sprightly , graceful movements , so full of vivacity and intelligence ...
... pretty , Aunt Jenny ? ' ' It has not a brilliant plumage ; yet you would be sure to think it an exceedingly pretty bird , on account of its elegant shape , and its sprightly , graceful movements , so full of vivacity and intelligence ...
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... pretty notes instead of incessant squeaks - when we set out on a long journey ; and then came a terrible time for the mocking - birds . ' ' Was that when you were coming home , Aunt Jenny ? ' ' I was coming northwards on my way home ...
... pretty notes instead of incessant squeaks - when we set out on a long journey ; and then came a terrible time for the mocking - birds . ' ' Was that when you were coming home , Aunt Jenny ? ' ' I was coming northwards on my way home ...
Page 54
... pretty notes , and were growing almost independent of my care , when another interruption arrived in the shape of the voyage across the Atlantic ; and again for some days were they nearly dying . But the farther I got from Virginia ...
... pretty notes , and were growing almost independent of my care , when another interruption arrived in the shape of the voyage across the Atlantic ; and again for some days were they nearly dying . But the farther I got from Virginia ...
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