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Identifier: boywhoknewwhatbicolu (find matches)
Title: The boy who knew what the birds said
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
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Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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e rime on his wings he has gone into the line of frost. 59 THE BOY WHO KNEW WHAT THE BIRDS SAID The Eagle is King of the Birds and no one candeny it, said the King. The village of Windy-Gap has not sent me my tribute. Mercy, said the Headman of Windy-Gap. The village and all in it shall be sold to theSaracens, said the King. Just then the Wren came down and lighted onthe perch beside the Eagle. WTiere did the Wrenfly to? said the King. By my glove, said theFalconer he soared past the line of frost, andwent into the line of snow, for whats on his feathersis a drop of snow. The Wren is King of the Birds, said theHeadman of Windy-Gap. Yes, King of the Birds, said the King, and,therefore, my lawful tribute. And so, for ever after the villages sent to the King, not an Eagle, but a Wren as tribute. And in no village ever after were the lands unplowed and the fields unsown, the cloth unspun and the coats not made, the roofs unthatched and the apple-trees unplanted. And in every village in 60
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No bird will ever out-soar this flight of mine,said the Eagle. THE BOY WHO KNEW WHAT THE BIRDS SAID the hollow and on the height the people shoutedfor the Wren—The Wren, the Wren, the Kingof all Birds.

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  • bookyear:1918
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  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Colum__Padraic__1881_1972
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Macmillan_Company
  • bookcontributor:Information_and_Library_Science_Library__University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill
  • booksponsor:University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill
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