Title: Citizen bird. Scenes from bird-life in plain english for beginners
Identifier: citizenbirdscenes00wrig (find matches)
Year: 1923 (1920s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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PEEPERS AND CHEEPERS 123 THE CHICKADEE
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" I see them, I see them, lots of them ! " almost screamed Dodo, growing so excited that Nat and Olive each grabbed one of her hands to keep her from clapping them, and so driving the Chicka- dees away. " I never saw a strange new bird so near by," explained Dodo, " and if my eye Avas only a photo- graph machine I could take his picture." ^' You can make a word-picture instead, by telling us how the bird appears to you," said the Doctor in a low voice, " but you need not whisper, for whispering is an unnatural use of the voice other people suspicious, and is more likely to attract attention than a quiet low tone." "That is what mother said when she was sick last winter and the neighbors came in to sit with her. If they talked softly she stayed asleep and didn't mind, but if they whispered she said she dreamed that the room was full of geese hissing and always waked up frightened," said Nat. The Chickadees did not mind tlie conversation in the least, l)ut kept on flitting in and out of the spruces, swinging from tlie little pink buds tliat Avould grow into cones by and by, doing a dozen pretty tricks, and Chickadee. it makes birds and

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