Bird Stories

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Edith M. Patch. Bird Stories

Bird Stories

Table of Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

BIRD STORIES

I

CHICK, D.D

II

THE FIVE WORLDS OF LARIE

FOOTNOTES:

III

PETER PIPER

IV

GAVIA OF IMMER LAKE

V

EVE AND PETRO

VI

UNCLE SAM

VII

CORBIE

VIII

ARDEA'S SOLDIER

IX

THE FLYING CLOWN

FOOTNOTES:

X

THE LOST DOVE

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XI

LITTLE SOLOMON OTUS

FOOTNOTES:

XII

BOB THE VAGABOND

NOTES

CONSERVATION

CHICK, D.D

THE FIVE WORLDS OF LARIE

PETER PIPER

GAVIA OF IMMER LAKE

EVE AND PETRO

UNCLE SAM

CORBIE

ARDEA'S SOLDIER

THE FLYING CLOWN

THE LOST DOVE

LITTLE SOLOMON OTUS

BOB, THE VAGABOND

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Edith M. Patch

Published by Good Press, 2019

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But there was none to come who was braver or happier than Chick, D.D., and none who sang so gayly. After that good Christmas feast he and his flock returned each day; and when, in due time, the ice melted from the branches, it wasn't just suet they ate. It was other things, too.

That is how it happened that when, early in the spring, the Farmer Boy examined the apple-twigs, to see whether he should put on a nicotine spray for the aphids and an arsenical spray for the tent caterpillars, he couldn't find enough aphids to spray or enough caterpillars, either. Chick, D.D. and his flock had eaten their eggs.

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