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    My Robin
    My Robin
    My Robin
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    My Robin

    By Frances Hodgson Burnett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    My Robin
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) grew up in England, but she began writing what was to become The Secret Garden in 1909, when she was creating a garden for a new home in Long Island, New York. Frances was a born storyteller. Even as a young child, her greatest pleasure was making up stories and acting them out, using her dolls as characters. She wrote over forty books in her lifetime.

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      My Robin - Frances Hodgson Burnett

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of My Robin, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: My Robin

      Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

      Illustrator: Alfred Brennan

      Posting Date: September 1, 2012 [EBook #5304] Release Date: March, 2004 First Posted: June 25, 2002 Last Updated:

      Language: English

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      MY ROBIN BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

      ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED BRENNAN

      MY ROBIN

      There came to me among the letters I received last spring one which touched me very closely. It was a letter full of delightful things but the delightful thing which so reached my soul was a question. The writer had been reading The Secret Garden and her question was this: Did you own the original of the robin? He could not have been a mere creature of fantasy. I feel sure you owned him. I was thrilled to the centre of my being. Here was some one who plainly had been intimate with robins—English robins. I wrote and explained as far as one could in a letter what I am now going to relate in detail.

      I did not own the robin—he owned me—or perhaps we owned each other. He was an English robin and he was a PERSON—not a mere bird. An English robin differs greatly from the American one. He is much smaller and quite differently shaped. His body is daintily round and plump, his legs are delicately slender. He is a graceful little patrician with an astonishing allurement of bearing. His eye is large and dark and dewy; he wears a tight little red satin waistcoat on his full round breast and every tilt of his head, every flirt of his wing is instinct with dramatic significance. He is fascinatingly conceited—he burns with curiosity—he is determined to engage in social relations at almost any cost and his raging jealousy of attention paid to less worthy objects than himself drives him at times to efforts to charm and distract which are irresistible. An intimacy with a robin—an English robin—is a liberal education.

      This particular one I knew in my

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