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Title: Stories of Birds

Author: Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

Release Date: February 8, 2007 [EBook #20547]

Language: English

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STORIES OF BIRDS

By

Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

_Illustrated by_

Sophie Schneider

_"When our babe he goeth walking in his garden
Around his tinkling feet the sunbeams play;
The posies they are good to him
And bow them as they should to him
As he fareth upon his kingly way:
The birdlings of the wood to him
Make music, gentle music, all the day
When our babe he goeth walking in his garden."_

_--Eugene Field._

Boston: L. C. Page and Company

Publishers

Copyright, 1903

By L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

(Incorporated)

All rights reserved

Made in U.S.A.

New Edition, April, 1925

THE COLONIAL PRESS

C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

PREFACE

Where can you find a lad who does not treasure among his secrets the
nesting-place of some pair of birds? Where can you find a child who
does not watch for the first robin of spring-time? Where can you find
one who does not know when the wild ducks in the wedge-shaped flocks
fly southward?

This little book of "Bird Stories" is written both for the children who
already know our common birds, and for those who may know them if they
choose.

For those children who know, the book is a verification of their own
facts, with an addition of stories, poems, and songs to make facts
beautiful; for the children who do not know, the book is a simple set
of facts placed before them for verification and entertainment.

To all, may the knowledge obtained be a pleasure and a delight.

LENORE ELIZABETH MULETS.

CONTENTS

The Chickadee
In the Snow
Twenty Little Chickadees
The Snowbird's Song
How the Birds Got Their Feathers
Chilly Little Chickadee