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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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How He Came to KnowWhat the Birds Said HHHERE is one thing that all theBirds are afraid of, and that isthe thing that will happen when theBird That Follows the Cuckoo fliesinto the Cuckoos mouth.And what will happen then, asks my kind foster-child. 13 THE BOY WHO KNEW WHAT THE BIRDS SAID When the Bird that Follows the Cuckoo fliesinto the Cuckoos mouth the World will come to anend. All the Birds know that, but not all the Peopleknow it. Well, one day the Cuckoo was sitting on a bushand her Mouth was open. The Bird That Followsthe Cuckoo flew straight at it. And into it he musthave flown only for the Boy. . . . The Boy was in the tree and he flung his cap atthe Cuckoo and he covered the Cuckoo and theCuckoos open mouth. The Bird That Follows the Cuckoo flew into theCrows mouth instead, and the Crow gave thatbird a squeeze, I can tell you. The Cuckoo pushedoff the Boys cap with her wings and flew into theforest. All the Birds of the Kings Garden were thereat the time. There were.— The

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