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. All for the love of Laddie : written for children and those who love them . we will be good where was your home before you came here?On another farm like this? Tell me about it;do, please. All right, if you will come out and sit on thegrass while I perch on the clothes-post, forthat is a favorite place of mine, and I dontcare to stay on the ground very long at atime. The pigeon led the way, and, when they wereboth nicely settled, began: I was bom in a city, just like you; but itwas a bird city. My home was a little roomnot quite two feet square, and about nine incheshigh. There w
. All for the love of Laddie : written for children and those who love them . we will be good where was your home before you came here?On another farm like this? Tell me about it;do, please. All right, if you will come out and sit on thegrass while I perch on the clothes-post, forthat is a favorite place of mine, and I dontcare to stay on the ground very long at atime. The pigeon led the way, and, when they wereboth nicely settled, began: I was bom in a city, just like you; but itwas a bird city. My home was a little roomnot quite two feet square, and about nine incheshigh. There were no windows, and all thelight we had came through a small door. I hada brother, and we sat by ourselves all day inour little nest of twigs—which was all thefurniture we had—for Father and Mother hadto be away most of the time finding food. Onceour nest had been nice and clean, but I am afraidBrother and I were not as careful to keep it soas we should have been, for it soon becamevery dirty. Indeed, you call us pigeonsvery dirty creatures; but we were then so.
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