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CITIZEN BIRD 



" I tliink a cool bird will be very nice for a warm 

 day," said Dodo. *' Something like soda water and ice 

 cream. That makes me think — Mammy Bun was 

 cracking ice this morning, and I Avonder what for ! " 



" I wonder ! " said Olive, laughing. 



"I know," said Nat, who was a tease; "it must be 

 to bake a cake with ! " 



Snow FLAKE. 



" Here is a nice place for us," said the Doctor, who 

 liad walked on ahead, " where we can see over the fields 

 and into the woods by only turning our heads, and the 

 moss is so dry that we may sit anywhere we please. 



" The trees are in fall leaf now," he continued, look- 

 ing up as he leaned comfortably against the trunk of 

 an oak that spread its high root ridges on each side 

 of him like the arms of a chair. '' The spring flowers 



