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Title: The farmer's boy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: Farm life -- New England Rural children -- New England New England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Crowell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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summer days, were to be found skimming over thewaters of the streams and ponds, and they made flyingdips and twittered and rose and fell and twisted andturned, and seemed very hajjjjy. Hiey had holes in ahigli bank in the \icinity, and if the l:)oy thought hewanted to get a collection of birds eggs, he armed himselfwith a trowel, some day, and climbed the steep djrt bankto dig them out. Tlie holes went in about an arnrislength, and at the end was a rude little nest, and somewhite eggs with such tender shell> that the boy broke manymore tlian he succeeded in carrying away. He storedsuch eggs as he gathered from time to lime in small woodenor pasteboard bo.xes, with cotton in the l)ottoms, until toomany of the eggs got broken, wlun hr ihrrw the wholething away. His interest had \)vvn destructi\e andlemjjorarx, and hv would nnu h bclUT ha\e studied in adifferenl fashion, or turned lii> lalcnl to soiuctliing (.Ise.Several other bird> are >till to be nuntioiud lluil <faine I
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JJiri! lCrk S11 miner 95 his attention. There were the humming ):>irds that buzzedabout among the blossoms, inserting their long bills, andthey could poise on their misty wings with bodies won-derfully motionless. They had hues of the rainbowin their feathers, and they Hashed out of sight acrossthe yard in no time when they saw the boy. Thebarn and chimney swallows he noticed most at twilight,darting in tangled Ihghts in upper air or skimminglow over the fields in twittering alertness. How thevworried the old cat as she crouched in the havfield!Again and again they almost touched her head in llieircircling, but they were so swift and changeful thai the cathad no chance of catching ihem. Then there was thekingbird which the bo\ \ery much admired — he was avigorous, gooddooking fellow, with an admirable antij)athyfor tyrants and bullies. Size made no difference with him.He put the crow to ungainly thght; he followed the hawk,and the boy could see liim high in air darting down atthe

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