The mud-king's daughter : and other tales . com dropped in the ruts, it 154 THE GIRL WHO TKOD [JPON BKEAD. would eat only a single grain itself, while itcalled all the starving sparrows to partake oiit. It would also fly to the villages and townsand look ^vell about; and where kind handshad strewed crumbs of bread outside the windows for the birds, it would eat only one morsel itself, and give all the rest to the others. At the end of the winter the bird had foundand given away so many crumbs of bread, thatthe number put together w^ould have weigheras much as the loaf upon which little Ingeiha
The mud-king's daughter : and other tales . com dropped in the ruts, it 154 THE GIRL WHO TKOD [JPON BKEAD. would eat only a single grain itself, while itcalled all the starving sparrows to partake oiit. It would also fly to the villages and townsand look ^vell about; and where kind handshad strewed crumbs of bread outside the windows for the birds, it would eat only one morsel itself, and give all the rest to the others. At the end of the winter the bird had foundand given away so many crumbs of bread, thatthe number put together w^ould have weigheras much as the loaf upon which little Ingeihad trodden in order to save her fine shoesfrom being soiled; and when she had foundand given away the very last crumb, the graywings of the bird became white, and expandedwonderfally. It is flying over the sea! exclaimed thechildren who saw the white bird. Now itseemed to dip into the ocean, now it aroseinto the clear sunshine; it glittered in the air ^it disappeared high, high above; and the cliildren said that it had flown up to the THE OLD CAK-TREES LAST DREAM A CHRISTMAS TALE.
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