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Title: Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Dyer, Sidney, 1814-1898. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Bible and publication society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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to himfor grace and strength, for he assures us that he isa present help in time of trouble. If you trulyseek his aid, your better desires will be realized ; andbe assured that you shall have my earnest prayersand untiring assistance in all your struggles to reacha higher life. Oh, thank you, thank you! was the gratefulresponse of her pupil. I begin to feel strongeralready. It would be difficult to tell which was the happieras teacher and pupil stood there by the roadsideholding this conversation. One heart was joyfullybeating with the pulsations of a new-born purposeto seek a nobler life, wThile the other was rejoicingthat her humble efforts had been blest in awakeningthis noble aspiration. The teacher felt anew therich rewards which they are sure to inherit who giveeven a cup of cold water to a thirsty soul in thename and for the sake of the divine Master. From BOYS AND BIRDS. 93 the success realized in the case before her, she wasled to cherish great hopes of seeing many others of
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Fig. 8.— the neglected children of the district rescued fromthe sad condition in which she had found them.When the conversation ended which had so hap- 94 BOYS AND BIRDS. pily restored the relations of the teacher and one ofher recreant pupils, Miss Truat turned again to thegrave bird, which had been all the while staring atthem with its great cat-like eyes (Fig. 8), and asked : Why, David, how did you succeed in catchingthis magnificent bird ? It is one of the finest speci-mens I ever saw, and rarely met with in this part ofthe country so late in the season of spring/ Well, Miss Truat/ was the reply, you see Icouldnt sleep last night, I felt so bad. I thoughtyou would despise me and the boys would laugh atme, and I just wished I was dead. While I wastumbling about in my bed I heard the owl hootingin the woods close by our house, and it reminded meof my promise to get you the bird, and that mademe feel a great deal worse; and then it came to meall at once to just get up and try to c

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