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

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

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

      A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People

      Author: Various

      Release Date: January 31, 2008 [EBook #24474]

      Language: English

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      THE

      NURSERY

      A Monthly Magazine

      For Youngest Readers.

      VOLUME XIII.

      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 STORY OF THE SPARROWS.

      THE STORY OF THE SPARROWS.

      E are little English sparrows. We have been two years in America. We were brought over by Mr. Wakefield's gardener. He let us loose in the grove; and there we have been ever since.

      Mr. Wakefield has built little houses for us, and put them on the boughs of the trees. We go into these houses when it rains hard or blows. Once the doors of our houses were all blocked up with snow.

      The winters here are much colder than in England, where we were born. More snow falls, and thicker ice forms here. But we like our new home very well.

      Many young sparrows have been born to us. They are proud of being Americans. They think they are cleverer than their parents, because their parents, you see, are English. Pride is not right, is it?

      There is a bird called the butcher-bird,—a very savage bird,—that tries to

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