The Birds' Christmas Carol

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Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith. The Birds' Christmas Carol

I. A LITTLE SNOW BIRD

II. DROOPING WINGS

III. THE BIRD'S NEST

IV "BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER."

V. SOME OTHER BIRDS ARE TAUGHT TO FLY

VI "WHEN THE PIE WAS OPENED, THE BIRDS BEGAN TO SING!"

VII. THE BIRDLING FLIES AWAY

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It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child was born in the Bird household.

They had intended to name the baby Lucy, if it were a girl; but they hadn't expected her on Christmas morning, and a real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named—the whole family agreed in that.

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Mrs. Bird thought, as the music floated in upon her gentle sleep, that she had slipped into heaven with her new baby, and that the angels were bidding them welcome. But the tiny bundle by her side stirred a little, and though it was scarcely more than the ruffling of a feather, she awoke; for the mother-ear is so close to the heart that it can hear the faintest whisper of a child.

She opened her eyes and drew the baby closer. It looked like a rose dipped in milk, she thought, this pink and white blossom of girlhood, or like a pink cherub, with its halo of pale yellow hair, finer than floss silk.

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