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Golden Dicky; The Story of a Canary and His Friends
Golden Dicky The Story of a Canary and His Friends Author:Marshall Saunders General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Co. Description: '"For I am my brother's keeper And I will fight his fight ... Till the world shall set things right.'-Ella Wheeler Wilcox." Subjects: Birds Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illu... more »strations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II A TRIP DOWNSTAIRS , what a different air the hall had -- very quiet and peaceful, no twittering of birds and never-stopping flying and fluttering, and chattering and singing, and with the murmur of the fountain going on, even in our sleep! There was no gravel on this floor, just a soft-looking thing the color of grass, that I found out afterward was called a carpet. Our Mary hopped cheerfully down the stairs. She was quite a young girl, and had had a fall when a baby, that had made her very lame. Her parents gave her the bird-room to amuse her, so my mother had told me, for she could not go much on the street. On the floor below the attic were some wide cheerful rooms with sunny windows. These were all called bedrooms, and her parents and two little cousins slept in them. There was nobody in them on this morning of my first visit to the big world outside the bird-room, and wewent down another long staircase. Here was a wider hall than the others, and several rooms as large as two or three bird-rooms put together. Our Mary took me in between long curtains to a very beautiful place, with many things to sit on and a covering for the floor just as soft as our grass sods. She was quite out of breath, and dropping down on a little chair, put up a finger for me to step on it from her shoulder, and sat smiling at me. "What big eyes, birdie 1" she said. "What are you frightened of?" "Of everything," ...« less