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"It isn't safe, Fleda; you might see somebody." "Well ma'am! But I tell you I am not going to see anybody but the chick-a-dees and the snow-birds, and there is great simplicity of manners prevailing among them." The shoes were changed, and Hugh and Fleda set forth, lingering awhile however to give a new edge to their hatchet, Fleda turning the grindstone.
"It isn't safe, Fleda; you might see somebody." "Well, Ma'am! But I tell you I am not going to see anybody but the chick-a-dees and the snow-birds, and there is great simplicity of manners prevailing among them." The shoes were changed, and Hugh and Fleda set forth, lingering a while, however, to give a new edge to their hatchet Fleda turning the grindstone.
O look how the sun is glinting on the west side of that hillock!" "It is twice as bright since you have come home," said Hugh. "The snow is too beautiful to-day. O I was right! one may grow morbid over books but I defy anybody in the company of those chick-a-dees. I should think it would be hard to keep quite sound in the city." "You are glad to be here again, aren't you?" said Hugh. "Very!
All this while there had been other birds in view besides the bluejay chick-a-dees and nut-hatches hunting their tiny prey among the dark branches of the fir-trees, Canada sparrows fluting their clear call from the tree tops, flycatchers darting and tumbling in their zig-zag, erratic flights, and sometimes a big golden-wing woodpecker running up and down a tall, dead trunk which stood close by, and rat-tat-tat-tatting in a most businesslike and determined manner.
Oh, look how the sun is glinting on the west side of that hillock!" "It is twice as bright since you have come home," said Hugh. "The snow is too beautiful to-day. Oh, I was right! One may grow morbid over books, but I defy anybody, in the company of those chick-a-dees. I should think it would be hard to keep quite sound in the city." "You are glad to be here again, aren't you?" said Hugh. "Very!
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