Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
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With Introduction by HON. JOHN F. LACEY M.C. Drawings by ELIZABETH M. HALLOWELL
Chapters (45)
- Dickey Downy
- The Autobiography of a Bird
- VIRGINIA SHARPE PATTERSON
- With Introduction by HON. JOHN F. LACEY, M.C.
- Drawings by ELIZABETH M. HALLOWELL
- To my dear children Laura, Virgie, and Robert George this little Volume is Affectionately Inscribed
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- The Indigo Bird The Summer Tanager The Baltimore Oriole The Bobolink
- CHAPTER I
- THE ORCHARD
- CHAPTER II
- DICKEY DOWNY'S MEDITATION
- [Illustration: The Indigo Bird.]
- CHAPTER III
- THE RULER WITH THE IRON HAND
- CHAPTER IV
- DICKEY'S COUSINS
- CHAPTER V
- "DON'T, JOHNNY"
- CHAPTER VI
- THE PARROT AT A PARTY
- [Illustration: The Summer Tanager.]
- CHAPTER VII
- A WINTER IN THE SOUTH
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE PRISON
- CHAPTER IX
- THE HUNTERS
- CHAPTER X
- A NEW HOME
- CHAPTER XI
- THE ILL-MANNERED CHILD
- [Illustration: The Baltimore Oriole.]
- CHAPTER XII
- TWO SLAVES OF FASHION
- CHAPTER XIII
- DICKEY'S VISIT
- [Illustration: The Bobolink.]
- CHAPTER XIV
- THE COUNTRY SCHOOL
- THE MOUNT AIRY SCHOOL.
- CHAPTER XV
- POLLY'S FAREWELL
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