The Bodleys telling stories . )igeons in there. Charley ]5owdlear used to trapthem. Thats where I came near being run over once. A milk-cartjust grazed my heel. It was a very narrow escape. Did you ever trap blue jays? asked Martin. No: what are they. 1 dont see how a J can be blue. •• AVell, they are. It s a bird that s plenty round where I and T have trap]ie(l em many a time. They re jtrrant littlethieves, and you catch em in a box-tra[) with u little corn. What do \()U do with them? said TRAPPING BLUE JAYS. HISTORIC BUILDINGS. 105 C( Oh, Hen an I d keep em a little while
The Bodleys telling stories . )igeons in there. Charley ]5owdlear used to trapthem. Thats where I came near being run over once. A milk-cartjust grazed my heel. It was a very narrow escape. Did you ever trap blue jays? asked Martin. No: what are they. 1 dont see how a J can be blue. •• AVell, they are. It s a bird that s plenty round where I and T have trap]ie(l em many a time. They re jtrrant littlethieves, and you catch em in a box-tra[) with u little corn. What do \()U do with them? said TRAPPING BLUE JAYS. HISTORIC BUILDINGS. 105 C( Oh, Hen an I d keep em a little while, and then we d let emgo. We only caught em for the fun of catching em. Nathan, Nathan ! cried Phippy. Look ! there is old MaamBatterman. • Why, so it is. She s got her old l^lack hat on. She s awfullycross, Martin. She nsed to live right next to ns, and some waterleaked in from our house and wet hers, and she came round andscolded papa. Why, here we are at our old house. Father I why,whats happened ? Its full of Ijlinds and doors, and there s a signup over it. Its a shop for making and selling doors and blinds, l)uy second hand ones there too. What! our house? Why, are nt we ever going back theretolive ? No. Do you want to leave Roseland ? No-o ; I like living there best. But it was plain that Nathandid not relish havins: the house transformed in that stvle. Only think, said Phippy, blinds and doors in our best parlor !Its awful. Houses change a good deal in a city like this, Phippy, sai
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