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Johnny, just go out into the yard,
and pick up any bits of straw and
hay that you see. And you, May,
go and ask mother for a nice little
piece of wool; and then we'll see if
we can’t make him a nice soft nest
of his own.’

And so he did,—that clever
daddy. You would almost have
thought that he had once been a
father bird himself: he did it so
capitally.

Then mother boiled an egg hard,
and chopped it up very fine; and
she put it in a saucer, with a little
sopped bread, and a few seeds that she
happened to have, that birdie might
please his own taste. And they put

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