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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_016
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2
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Date
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1899
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Creator
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Elizabeth Van Sant
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Description
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Elizabeth Van Sant transcribed letters
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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46 Phil is still the same bird. He helps himself to a handful of feathers once in a while, but quite in a friendly way, and the other birds do not avoid him. I have taken to opening the cages when I first get up in the morning, letting the birds fly until I am ready to get breakfast. The orioles and Tatters quite on our heads, shoulders or arms. Fluff comes occasionally, but with a less confiding air. We thought in view of the deprecative name we had given Tatters, we should take his picture in his raggedness. This we did today; it is terrible. We placed him on a spray of newly offered bittersweet, and when he extended his scrawny neck for a distant berry we snapped. It surely sets off his appearance to the best (worst) advantage. He is covered with a starting crop of pin-feathers, so we feel sure his disgrace is not permanent. In spite of his awful clothes he has our admiration for his gentle and lovable disposition and his beautiful wings. Sept. 1 Frank heard today the note of a baby English sparrow on the street, and succeeded in locating it in the lining of a kid's coat. He bought it for ten cents, and brought it home; and it proves to be just what we have been needing - a pal for Philip, sufficiently grown to require little care. It is a beautiful, fluffy little baby, with a look of perfect innocence in its eye. Of course Phil proceeds at once to tyrannize over it, and the result is that he gets ousted from his cage and the little one is installed there.
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Rights
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