. St. Nicholas [serial]. A DIFFICULT LANDING ON A CROWDED FIELD J RE WITH CATBIRDS 595 Having only two plates left, we meant to showsomething on foot at the end. There is no doubt about Mother Catbird beinga skilled bird-woman, but there is just one littlestunt she cannot perform—namely, make a per-fect landing on a crowded field. She deposited. ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN her cargo correctly, it is true, but behold howbadly she bumped the spectators! One more plate—what shall the picture be?I asked. I have it!—this from Pal, after a momentsthought, and with great joyousness. As a per-fectly fitting
. St. Nicholas [serial]. A DIFFICULT LANDING ON A CROWDED FIELD J RE WITH CATBIRDS 595 Having only two plates left, we meant to showsomething on foot at the end. There is no doubt about Mother Catbird beinga skilled bird-woman, but there is just one littlestunt she cannot perform—namely, make a per-fect landing on a crowded field. She deposited. ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN her cargo correctly, it is true, but behold howbadly she bumped the spectators! One more plate—what shall the picture be?I asked. I have it!—this from Pal, after a momentsthought, and with great joyousness. As a per-fectly fitting finale to this memorable series ofwild-life portraits, we will have a picture otMother Catbird perched on the very peak of myshoe, from which point of vantage she shall lectureher little ones upon the dangers of way those kids have been consuming cherries,stones and all, this morning, calls for just such aproceeding if indigestion is to be so the camera made its last exposure. Not being familiar with the catbird language,we cannot vouch for the fact that the matterin question was brought before the meeting atthis final conference. Whatever subject wasacted upon, however, it received the approvalof a majority, despite one violently dissentingvote—the picture shows it all very clearly.
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