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Identifier: chickadeedeehisf00sand (find matches)
Title: Chickadee-dee and his friends
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Sanderson, Lyle Ward. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ays wore a light sweater, (I) CHICKADEE-DEE AND HIS FRIENDS gray suit and black cap. But he never botheredwith a necktie. ^IU beat you to the hickory-tree! criedChickadee-dee when Nutty appeared. Comeon! and off they raced. Chickadee-dee bobbedalong as fast as he could fly, but Nutty reachedthe goal first, just by the flick of a wing. Old Mr. Downy Woodpecker, who was cling-ing to the trunk of the hickory-tree, watched therace with much interest. Good work, Nutty! he cried. Tm gladyou birds are getting your muscle up. Youllneed it when the time comes for you to keep allthese tree trunks and branches free from harm-ful grubs and insects, the way I have to. My muscles pretty good, said Chickadee-dee eagerly. What can you do, little fellow? Can youhop backwards down a tree trunk the wayWoodpeckers do? I can do this, said Chickadee-dee. Seizingtight hold of a little twig he proceeded to standon his head, while he picked out a tiny grubfrom the bark with his sharp little bill. He was (2) I
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Chickadee-dee Wore a Little Black L.w-. and a Necktie.Nutty Nuthatch Was a Little Larger Than His Chum Page I CHICKADEE-DEE AND HIS CHUM in very good practise, for he often stood on hishead while eating his dinner. And his mothernever reproved him for it either. Tretty good! Pretty good! said old Mr.Woodpecker, who had been a great athlete inhis youth. Can you do that. Nutty? Nutty gave a merry quank, quank, and tak-ing tight hold with his toes ran head downwardthe entire length of a branch. He did it easily, too. All his chums acknowl-edged he was the best acrobat in the crowd.And his mother was afraid he would run awayand join the circus. Then Chickadee-dee jumped onto a twig,swung himself down under it, then up again,making a complete somersault, like a humanacrobat doing the giant swing. How Mr. Woodpecker laughed! Well,well, you birds are quite a team! But it remained for Nutty Nuthatch to do themost wonderful feat. Up he ran to the top ofthe tree and started to come down the tru

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