StNicholas [serial] . the young pigeons loose upon the the corn, the eager squabs ran squeal-ing and shaking their wings among the otherbirds. Then Little American saw what wasto happen. Squabs always spread their wingswhen they squeal to be fed. Even when theycan pick up for themselves, they begin bysquealing and fanning at the other these squabs pushed among the unheeding-feeders, clumsily shaking their silly fans overtheir heads. In a moment Mu Wha Tou washooded between two of them, and as ifblindfolded; whereupon Li Loo, stepping upbehind the three, noiselessly as
StNicholas [serial] . the young pigeons loose upon the the corn, the eager squabs ran squeal-ing and shaking their wings among the otherbirds. Then Little American saw what wasto happen. Squabs always spread their wingswhen they squeal to be fed. Even when theycan pick up for themselves, they begin bysquealing and fanning at the other these squabs pushed among the unheeding-feeders, clumsily shaking their silly fans overtheir heads. In a moment Mu Wha Tou washooded between two of them, and as ifblindfolded; whereupon Li Loo, stepping upbehind the three, noiselessly as a cat, nabbedher from the ground. Little American was so happy at the baby-pigeon trick that he gave Mu Wha Tou as apresent to Li Loo, who clipped out her speck-led feathers, and glued in proper white fea-thers so neatly that no one knew her for whatou, or speckled head. And she was soldfor a big sum to a farmer, who took her toShantung, so that nobody knows what he saidwhen the black feathers grew out again. j***-.
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