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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... summer . Duncan thought this would be the very jolliest sport in the whole world , and became so frantic for his aunt to tell him about live humming - birds flying all over the gardens like butterflies , that Mrs. Morton was afraid he ...
... summer . Duncan thought this would be the very jolliest sport in the whole world , and became so frantic for his aunt to tell him about live humming - birds flying all over the gardens like butterflies , that Mrs. Morton was afraid he ...
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... summer rendered him rather delicate ; but he was going after the Christmas holidays . On this particular morning Miss Morton had received a letter from a friend in Florida , which had led her to speak of that beautiful State , and to ...
... summer rendered him rather delicate ; but he was going after the Christmas holidays . On this particular morning Miss Morton had received a letter from a friend in Florida , which had led her to speak of that beautiful State , and to ...
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... summer , and perhaps might even make a nest , and lay some eggs . And would not that be capital ? ' ' Yes ; I believe Mr. Gosse and others have tried that very plan , Maggie , ' resumed Miss Morton . ' One can imagine that in a large ...
... summer , and perhaps might even make a nest , and lay some eggs . And would not that be capital ? ' ' Yes ; I believe Mr. Gosse and others have tried that very plan , Maggie , ' resumed Miss Morton . ' One can imagine that in a large ...
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... summer ; but their plumage is less brilliant in those localities than in Florida and further south . Indeed , so truly are they children of the sun , that gradually as you approach under his scorching rays in the tropics , so does their ...
... summer ; but their plumage is less brilliant in those localities than in Florida and further south . Indeed , so truly are they children of the sun , that gradually as you approach under his scorching rays in the tropics , so does their ...
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... summer . Now the ladies in Maine are very active and industrious ; and even if they live in fine large houses , they bring up their daughters to be very useful , and to do a great many things for themselves , which English ladies would ...
... summer . Now the ladies in Maine are very active and industrious ; and even if they live in fine large houses , they bring up their daughters to be very useful , and to do a great many things for themselves , which English ladies would ...
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