Stories of Birds
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Memory Gems for Children, by Jessie Carr Tyndall, Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, (1912).
True Bird Stories, by Olive Thorne Miller, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1903).
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Stories of Birds
Our Feathered Friends, by Elizabeth Grinnell and Joseph Grinnell, Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., Publishers, (1898).
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Mother Nature’s Children, by Allen Walton Gould, Boston: Ginn & Company, (1900).
of Contents Mother Nature’s Children ..........................................1 How the Birds Cradle their Babies ........................................... 3 How Babies are Cradled in Clay and Wood ........................... 12 How the Birds Tend their Babies ........................................... 16 How Mother Nature Sets the Table for Birds ........................ 24 How Mother Nature Clothes the Birds .................................. 32 How Birds Learn to Fly .......................................................... 39 How Men and Birds Lay Up Food .......................................... 44 Our Feathered Friends..............................................53 Introduction............................................................................ 55 The Message of a Mocking Bird ............................................. 60 Some People We Like to Know.............................................. 63 Civilized Birds......................................................................... 67 How Birds Dress..................................................................... 71 How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair........................................ 76 What Birds Carry in their Pockets ......................................... 80 Child Birds.............................................................................. 85 How Baby Birds are Fed ......................................................... 90 At Meal-Time ......................................................................... 95 Seed-Eaters and Meat-Eaters ................................................100 Some Birds with a Bad Name...............................................104 Before Breakfast ...................................................................109 Our Birds’ Restaurant. Meals at all Hours.......................114 Umbrellas and Other Things ................................................119
Table
Table of Contents Continued Cradle Making ......................................................................125 Our Screech Owl ..................................................................130 Birds at Work and Play.........................................................135 Some Other Birds at Work ...................................................140 A Pet Humming-Bird............................................................147 How We Took the Humming-Birds’ Pictures ......................151 Our Robin Redbreast............................................................159 More About Our Robin ........................................................164 Going to Bed and Getting Up ...............................................170 Mrs. Towhee Proposes a Garden Party.................................176 At the Garden Party..............................................................181 Our Bird Hospital .................................................................188 A Splendid Collection...........................................................191 True Bird Stories ................................................... 195 Preface ..................................................................................196 n the Bird Room..................................................................197 The Bird Room ......................................................................199 The Gold Finches ..................................................................202 The Goldfinch’s Fright...........................................................205 The Bird That Would Not Be Free........................................208 The Busy Blue Jay..................................................................212 The Droll Tanager.................................................................219 The Goldfinch’s Devotion .....................................................222 A Madcap Thrush .................................................................225 The Baby Robin .....................................................................231
A
Doctor
How the
Out of Doors ...............................................................301
in the Bird Room........................................................278
Lost Baby........................................................................321
Golden Goose.................................................................265
Oriole...................................................................271
Polly’s
Swallows in a Frolic.......................................................311
The Goldfinch’s
How the
Birds
Upper
Dog Interfered.........................................................315
The
Crow Baby was Punished ........................................325
Wild Robins .............................................................329
Droll Mockingbird..........................................................332
Dot.............................................................................294
Birds
Bird
and Lower Story in the Bird World.............................318
Blizzards
Friendly
Outing.........................................................................259
Polly’s
The
Antics
Poems .............................................................345
Fun ..............................................................239
Comical Chewink...........................................................246
The
A Jay’s
Ducklings Who Would Not Give Up.............................340
The
My
Sociable Baby Dove ...........................................................337
The Saucy
that Live in a House ....................................289
The Thrushes
Who Lived in the City....................................307
First Bird ..........................................................................303
.................................................................................281
and Dolls.......................................................................343
Pranks .........................................................................253
Barn
Table Manners...........................................................327
Three Sparrows
The
by Allen Walton Gould
Selections from Mother Nature’s Children
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How the Birds Cradle their Babies
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Stories of Birds
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Stories of Birds
Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
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How Babies are Cradled in Clay and Wood
Mother Nature’s Children
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Stories of Birds
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Mother Nature’s Children
How the Birds Tend their Babies
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Mother Nature’s Children
Stories of Birds
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
How Mother Nature Sets the Table for Birds
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Stories of Birds
Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Stories of Birds
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Mother Nature’s Children
How Mother Nature Clothes the Birds
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Stories of Birds
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
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How Birds Learn to Fly
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
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How Men and Birds Lay Up Food
Mother Nature’s Children
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Stories of Birds
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Mother Nature’s Children
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Our Feathered Friends
Introduction
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Our Feathered Friends
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Stories of Birds
Our Feathered Friends
Our Feathered Friends Chapter I
The Message of a Mocking Bird
Our Feathered Friends
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Stories of Birds
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Some People We Like to Know
Chapter II
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Our Feathered Friends
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Stories of Birds
Chapter III
Civilized Birds
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Our Feathered Friends
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Stories of Birds
Chapter IV How Birds Dress
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Our Feathered Friends
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Our Feathered Friends
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How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair
Chapter V
Our Feathered Friends
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Our Feathered Friends
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Chapter VI
What Birds Carry in their Pockets
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Our Feathered Friends
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Our Feathered Friends
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Chapter VII Child Birds
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Our Feathered Friends
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Our Feathered Friends
Chapter VIII
How Baby Birds are Fed
Our Feathered Friends
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Our Feathered Friends
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Chapter IX At Meal-Time
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Our Feathered Friends
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Our Feathered Friends
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Chapter X
Seed-Eaters and Meat-Eaters
Our Feathered Friends 101
Stories of
102Birds
Our Feathered Friends
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Some Birds with a Bad Name
Chapter XI
Our Feathered Friends 105
106Birds
Stories of
Our Feathered Friends 107
Stories of
108Birds
Chapter XII Before Breakfast
110Birds
Stories of
111
Our Feathered Friends
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112Birds
Our Feathered Friends
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Chapter XIII
Our Birds’ Restaurant. Meals at all Hours
115
Our Feathered Friends
116Birds
Stories of
Our Feathered Friends 117
Stories of
118Birds
Chapter XIV
Umbrellas and Other Things
Stories of
120Birds
Our Feathered Friends 121
122Birds
Stories of
Our Feathered Friends 123
Stories of
124Birds
Chapter XV Cradle Making
Stories of
126Birds
Our Feathered Friends 127
128Birds
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129
Our Feathered Friends
Chapter XVI
Our Screech Owl
Our Feathered Friends 131
Stories of
132Birds
Our Feathered Friends 133
134Birds
Stories of
Chapter XVII
Birds at Work and Play
Stories of
136Birds
Our Feathered Friends
137
Stories of
138Birds
Our Feathered Friends
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Chapter XVIII
Some Other Birds at Work
Our Feathered Friends 141
Stories of
142Birds
143
Our Feathered Friends
144Birds
Stories of
Our Feathered Friends
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146Birds
Stories of
A Pet Humming-Bird
Chapter XIX
Stories of
148Birds
Our Feathered Friends
149
150Birds
Stories of
Chapter XX
How We Took the Humming-Birds’ Pictures
152Birds
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Our Feathered Friends 153
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154Birds
Our Feathered Friends 155
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156Birds
Our Feathered Friends
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Stories of
Chapter XXI
Our Robin Redbreast
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Our Feathered Friends 161
162Birds
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Our Feathered Friends
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More About Our Robin
Chapter XXII
Our Feathered Friends 165
Stories of
166Birds
Our Feathered Friends 167
Stories of
168Birds
Our Feathered Friends
169
Chapter XXIII
Going to Bed and Getting Up
Our Feathered Friends 171
172Birds
Stories of
Our Feathered Friends 173
Stories of
174Birds
Our Feathered Friends
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Chapter XXIV
Mrs. Towhee Proposes a Garden Party
177
Our Feathered Friends
178Birds
Stories of
179
Our Feathered Friends
Stories of
180Birds
Chapter XXV
At the Garden Party
Stories of
182Birds
Our Feathered Friends 183
184Birds
Stories of
Our Feathered Friends 185
186Birds
Stories of
Our Feathered Friends 187
Chapter XXVI
Our Bird Hospital
189
Our Feathered Friends
Stories of
190Birds
Chapter XXVII
A Splendid Collection
Stories of
192Birds
Our Feathered Friends
193
True Bird Stories
Preface
n the Bird Room
199
True Bird Stories The Bird Room
200Birds
Stories of
201Stories
True Bird
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The Gold Finches
203Stories
True Bird
Stories of
204Birds
The Goldfinch’s Fright
205
206Birds
Stories of
207Stories
True Bird
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The Bird That Would Not Be Free
True Bird209Stories
210Birds
Stories of
True Bird
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The Busy Blue Jay I
213Stories
True Bird
214Birds
Stories of
215Stories II
True Bird
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216Birds
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True Bird
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218Birds
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The Droll Tanager
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True Bird
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