This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... HEZEKIAH'S WIVES I JT appears to be a law of life; that those things against which we rail too violently: are those which the inex orable working of some principle compels us to turn about and meet. Therefore it followed, of necessity, since I had declared against the sin of keeping birds in a house, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... HEZEKIAH'S WIVES I JT appears to be a law of life; that those things against which we rail too violently: are those which the inex orable working of some principle compels us to turn about and meet. Therefore it followed, of necessity, since I had declared against the sin of keeping birds in a house, and especially against the folly of canaries, that I should find myself some day forced to confess the ownership of one--a small yellow canary, in this instance, who, already known as Hezekiah, was sent me by an English girl suddenly called out of the country. On the morning after his arrival I opened the door of his cage, and the cheeriest corner of my parlor was made over to him. It is a corner filled all day with sunshine pouring through two windows at right angles to each other, and furnished with broad, old-fashioned sills. One window is to the east and the other to the south. Between them there had stood for years a rubber-tree, now grown, with tender nursing, to the size of an ordinary lilac-bush, its branches stretching wide like welcoming arms, until their fingers of glistening leaves press against the panes on either side. Back of this tree, and in the angle between the two windows, a long, narrow mirror runs from the floor to a level with the upper casing. On top of this mirror, and well out of the way of a careless touch, there is a small plaster cast of a singing boy with book outspread before him, his chubby hand extended, and his finger held up to mark the time. This corner, then, with its several appointments, has for some years constituted all of Hezekiah's world. The rubber-tree has been to him a forest of delight, and the shadow of the singing boy, like a shrine by the wayside, has sheltered him when he took his noonday rest. His...
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Elizabeth Williams Champney. 8vo, pp. 116. Cover stamped in gilt and white by E.W.C. (Elizabeth Williams Champney, 1850-1922) Owner's bookplate on pastedown, spine very slightly worn at ends, o/w a nice copy. A canary-lover's sentimental account of the lives of her birds.
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Elizabeth Williams Champney. 8vo, pp. 116. Cover stamped in gilt and white by E.W.C. (Elizabeth Williams Champney, 1850-1922) Owner's bookplate on pastedown, spine very slightly worn at ends, o/w a nice copy. A canary-lover's sentimental account of the lives of her birds.