Identifier: amongfarmyardpe00pier (find matches)
Title: Among the farmyard people
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pierson, Clara Dillingham
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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There was not acloud in the sky, and the meadow wascovered with thousands and thousands ofgreen grass blades, each so small and ten- 2 Among the Farmyard People der, and yet together making a most beau-tiful carpet for the feet of the farmyardpeople, and offering them sweet and juicyfood after their winter fare of hay andgrain. Truly it was a day to make onelaugh aloud for joy. The alder tasselsfluttered and danced in the spring breeze,while the smallest and shyest of the wil-low pussies crept from their little brownhouses on the branches to grow in thesunshine. Tittle-ittle-ittle-ee! Tittle-ittle-ittle-ee! And this time it was louder andclearer than before. The Swallows ! cried the Oxen toeach other. Then they straightened theirstrong necks and bellowed to the Horses,who were drawing the plow in the fieldbeyond, The Swallows are coming ! As soon as the Horses reached the endof the furrow and could rest a minute,they tossed their heads and whinniedwith delight. Then they looked around
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THE SWALLOWS ARE COMING. Page 2 Story that the Swallow Did nt Tell 3 at the farmer, and wished that he knewenough of the farmyard language to un-derstand what they wanted to tell him.They knew he would be glad to hear oftheir friends return, for had they notseen him pick up a young Swallow oneday and put him in a safer place ? Tittle-ittle-ittle-ee ! and there was asudden darkening of the sky above theirheads, a whirr of many wings, a chatter-ing and laughing of soft voices, and theSwallows had come. Perched on theridge-pole of the big barn, they restedand visited and heard all the news. The Doves were there, walking up anddown the sloping sides of the roof andcooing to each other about the simplethings of every-day life. You know theDoves stay at home all winter, and so itmakes a great change when their neigh-bors, the Swallows, return. They arefirm friends in spite of their very differ-ent ways of living. There was never a 4 Among the Farmyard People Dove who would be a Swallow if h

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