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Letter after letter brought the news that another of the home-birds had been stricken with fever, and for a week they were all in terrible anxiety about Daisy, the youngest child and pet of the household. But her life was spared, and she began to recover slowly.
But the two dearest home-birds of the fatherland had no family relations nor counterparts in America; and the pilgrim fathers and their children could not make their humble homes happy without the lark and the robin, at least in name and association; so they looked about them for substitutes.
I am afraid it would not be possible unless, as in the case of this birdie, it was one taken from the nest. The poem about birds' nests tells only of those made by our home-birds, but we can read of wonderful nests made by those in foreign countries.
My cousin, however, laughed down my scruples, told me I was out of leading-strings now, and, which was true enough, that it was "a deal better to amuse oneself in picture galleries without leave, than live a life of sneaking and lying under petticoat government, as all home-birds were sure to do in the long-run."
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