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Title
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Mott's Grove
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Date
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1890
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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Regional Narrative
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Identifier
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321301-00783
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Rights
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Cooperi unknowingly hed for nurture one small egg of & hen, convincingly
Light bluish, without marks. . The three miles back her
wes a light
and trifling jaunt.
In fulness and tract of time, Ledy Cooperi had three snail eggs of hens -
Light blviel
ete. And I had a Set (not a Clutch) of three eggs of
ciniter coopert (Boneparte), :.0.U. Noe 223!
I knew, of course, from observation and encyclopedias and things, ebout
when ovents would eventuate in the nest in the wildwood. I wore the t
end ey raiment rather szooth by climbing to
Jo whether ny ardent cecire
might not have forced incubetive processes by three or four deyss Wind's
obvicus superiority over mere Vetter shculd have et lenst that slight con-
cossion! - But nos it took thr
wooks, eo usual.
Uy visit wes late. Derknese was neking things spooky end indietinet.
So dark wes it thet Ledy Cooper remained on the nest until I was helfway ups
‘thon I heard a rush of wings, followed at once by a disconcerted "peep! peep!”
Despite alleged gravitational laws, I positively dashed the rest of the way.
Dimly vieible, a tiny light form stocd in the nest, unhappily poop-peeping
for "mother" to cone back with her warmth and ccmfort. Peep-peep tes hur-
ried into ny hat, and with thie between my teeth I descended. With the
certitude and ineonsequence of happy boyhood, Peep-peop vas forthwith chile
toned Voses, before I had recched the ground. . . . Weld, in passing, let's
cleer up thie nononclatorial problem once and for all fer Moses recained
name, Moses es @ nano for e lady did not perfectly fits but I was 80
dead sot ingay way thet no quibble which had to do with mere apy
epproprictencss
