tell you. It was a handsome robin standing 
in the bait-bucket in his boat eating his fish- 
worms as fast as he could gobble them up. 
Plattsburg is a very beautiful place in spring 
with its apple trees blossoming and the white 
blood roots blooming in the woods. Many birds 
live here, too, and sing the livelong day. But 
the one that Master William Strong loves best 
of all is a certain old robin that he calls Longtoe. 
They are great chums, and if Billy likes you well 
enough he may let you watch some morning 
while he feeds his friend with fish-worms in the 
back yard. 
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