Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird
by Virginia Sharpe Patterson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Patterson, Virginia Sharpe, 1841-1913
- Title
- Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Birds -- Juvenile literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 16255
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16255
- Release Date
- July 10, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Dickey Downy
- 2.The Autobiography of a Bird — by — VIRGINIA SHARPE PATTERSON — With Introduction by HON. JOHN F. LACEY, M.C. — Drawings by ELIZABETH M. HALLOWELL — To my dear children Laura, Virgie, and Robert George this little Volume is Affectionately Inscribed
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.List of Illustrations — The Indigo Bird — The Summer Tanager — The Baltimore Oriole — The Bobolink
- 6.CHAPTER I — THE ORCHARD
- 7.CHAPTER II — DICKEY DOWNY'S MEDITATION — [Illustration: The Indigo Bird.]
- 8.CHAPTER III — THE RULER WITH THE IRON HAND
- 9.CHAPTER IV — DICKEY'S COUSINS
- 10.CHAPTER V — "DON'T, JOHNNY"
- 11.CHAPTER VI — THE PARROT AT A PARTY — [Illustration: The Summer Tanager.]
- 12.CHAPTER VII — A WINTER IN THE SOUTH
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — THE PRISON
- 14.CHAPTER IX — THE HUNTERS
- 15.CHAPTER X — A NEW HOME
- 16.CHAPTER XI — THE ILL-MANNERED CHILD — [Illustration: The Baltimore Oriole.]
- 17.CHAPTER XII — TWO SLAVES OF FASHION
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — DICKEY'S VISIT — [Illustration: The Bobolink.]
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — THE COUNTRY SCHOOL — THE MOUNT AIRY SCHOOL.
- 20.CHAPTER XV — POLLY'S FAREWELL
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