THE LOST DOVE 



they liked to eat are growing. So, if you keep out of the 

 Atlantic Ocean, and get someone to show you where the 

 Great Plains are, you might look — almost anywhere. 

 Why, many of you would not need to take a steam-train 

 or even a trolley-car. You could walk there. Most of 

 you could. You could walk to a place where they used 

 to stop to feed. Those that were behind in the great 

 flock flew over the heads of all the others, and so were 

 in front for a while. In that way they all had a chance 

 at a well-spread picnic ground. Yes, you could easily 

 walk to a place where that used to happen — most of 

 you could. 



Do you know where acorns grow, or beechnuts, or 

 chestnuts? Well, Passenger Pigeons used to come there 

 to eat, for they were very fond of nuts! Do you know 

 where elm trees grow wild along some riverway, or 

 where pine trees live? Oh! that is where these birds used 

 sometimes to get their breakfasts, when the trees had 

 scattered their seeds. Do you know a tree that has a 

 seed about the right size and shape for a knife at a doll's 

 tea-party? Yes, that 's the maple ; and many and many 

 a party the Passenger Pigeons used to have wherever 

 they could find these cunning seed-knives. Only they 

 did n't use them to cut things with. They ate them up 

 as fast as ever they could. 



Have you ever picked wild berries? Why, more than 



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