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... Green Drake and Gray Drake The Song Sparrow • LUCY LARCOM • JOHN BURROUGHS GRINNELL . · . ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE . THOMAS NELSON PAGE THOMAS NELSON PAGE SELECTED FRANK CHAPMAN • • E. V. B. • • MARY NEWMARCH PRESCOTT E. V. B. • • E. V. B. ...
... Green Drake and Gray Drake The Song Sparrow • LUCY LARCOM • JOHN BURROUGHS GRINNELL . · . ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE . THOMAS NELSON PAGE THOMAS NELSON PAGE SELECTED FRANK CHAPMAN • • E. V. B. • • MARY NEWMARCH PRESCOTT E. V. B. • • E. V. B. ...
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... drake over the wall , but I set him down in the road as impartially as I could . How well the pink feet knew the course ! How they flew up the road ! His green head and white throat fairly twinkled under the long avenue of oaks and ...
... drake over the wall , but I set him down in the road as impartially as I could . How well the pink feet knew the course ! How they flew up the road ! His green head and white throat fairly twinkled under the long avenue of oaks and ...
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... GREEN DRAKE AND GRAY DRAKE A MAY FLY STORY GREEN DRAKE lives two or three years . Gray Drake lives but a day or two . Green Drake lives in the water ; Gray Drake lives in the air ; and yet , while they are such different - looking ...
... GREEN DRAKE AND GRAY DRAKE A MAY FLY STORY GREEN DRAKE lives two or three years . Gray Drake lives but a day or two . Green Drake lives in the water ; Gray Drake lives in the air ; and yet , while they are such different - looking ...
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... , which the fishermen call drakes , were born . They did not look at all like their pretty mother . There was not a wing to be seen in the whole family of grubs , nor were there any. THE DANCE OF THE MAY FLIES. GREEN DRAKE AND GRAY DRAKE ...
... , which the fishermen call drakes , were born . They did not look at all like their pretty mother . There was not a wing to be seen in the whole family of grubs , nor were there any. THE DANCE OF THE MAY FLIES. GREEN DRAKE AND GRAY DRAKE ...
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... Green Drake moulted , he found himself what he had always longed to be , a straw - colored May fly , with four beautiful gauzy wings and two long , straight , tapering tails . He was now what the fisherman , who had christened him Green ...
... Green Drake moulted , he found himself what he had always longed to be , a straw - colored May fly , with four beautiful gauzy wings and two long , straight , tapering tails . He was now what the fisherman , who had christened him Green ...
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