Identifier: birdsnature51907chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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and shut his eyes. His motherwas busy cooking; she wondered what hehad done with his clothes. It was thesecond little jacket and pair of shoes thatPeter had lost in a fortnight! XXV. I am sorry to say that Peter was notvery well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and madesome camomile tea; and she gave a dose ofit to Peter! One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time. XXVI. But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail hadbread and milk and blackberries, for supper. Thats All! 42 Birds & Nature Magazine Country Days By NELLIE GOUTANT FROM the time the first springbeauties open their eyes, to the lastautumn bonfire, the days in thecountry are crowned with delights. Notthe least of these, from the boys point ofview, is the fact that here he is able to admirers, with the hen with the ducklingsa star attraction. Lady Methuselah, whois at least nine years old, and who neverowns any but white chicks, receives hershare of attention and admiration. A near-bv brook attracts the children as
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Just Wading have some animal for which to care. Thereare few things more pitiful than many acity childs longing for a pet. But here inthe country, if they choose, Willie andJenny may bring up a rabbit, a woodchuckor an orphaned lamb, and there is no oneto object. Sams dogs have room to wagtheir tails without protest from the neigh-bors, and Sam himself may indulge his pro-pensity for base ball and other sports, andgo in swimming twice a day in summer. The poultry on the place, whether hensor ducks or turkeys, always has its ardent surely as a plate of sugar does flies, andwhether constructing wonderful forts andtunnels of sand, or taking part in mimicnaval engagements, or fishing with a stringand a bent pin, or just Vv^ading, the brookis one of the delights of summer. Prob-ably there is some favored spot in thevicinity where tradition says fish have beenknown to bite, and it is a proud occasionwhen the boy appears with a string ofbeauties that he declares are almost tooheavy for him t

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