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    The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
    The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
    The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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    The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

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      The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers - Archive Classics

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      Title: The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII.

      A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People

      Author: Various

      Release Date: January 31, 2008 [EBook #24476]

      Language: English

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      THE

      NURSERY

      A Monthly Magazine

      For Youngest Readers.

      VOLUME XIII.—No. 3

      BOSTON:

      JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET.

      1873.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,

      By

      JOHN L. SHOREY,

      In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

      Boston:

      Rand, Avery, & Co., Stereotypers and Printers.

      THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND.

      THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND.

      A TRUE STORY.

      HEN I was in Boston about a year ago, I stopped one day at the corner of Washington Street and Franklin Street to witness a pretty sight.

      Here, just as you turn into Franklin Street, on the right, a poor peddler used to stand with a few baskets of oranges or apples or peanuts, which he offered for sale to the passers-by.

      The street-pigeons had found in him a good friend; for he used to feed them with bits of peanuts, crumbs of bread, and seed: and every day, at a certain hour, they would fly down to get their food.

      On the day when I stopped to see them, the sun shone, and the street was crowded; and many people stopped, like myself, to see the pretty sight.

      The pigeons did not seem to be at all disturbed

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