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Identifier: doers00hopk (find matches)
Title: The doers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hopkins, William John, 1863-1926
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Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed along slowly,and he came where were some crusts of bread 158 THE DOERS and other things which the maid at his househad taken out there for the birds. Davids mother had the maid throw outcrusts of bread and tie lumps of fat on thetrees all winter, because when the snow is onthe ground it is sometimes hard for the birdsto lind things enough to eat. There was a plenty of things for the birdsto eat now, and they were easy enough to get,but some birds were picking at the scraps. Suddenly the birds flew up into a tree andtwo gray squirrels came and gnawed at thebread crusts, when the two crows that hadchased Davids cat came flapping down andtried to get at the scraps. But the squirrels stopped eating andchased the crows savagely; and the crowsdid nt fight back, but they just flew up alittle bit of a way and hovered there until thesquirrels began to eat again. Then they flapped down on the ground andbegan to sneak up toward the scraps; andthe squirrels darted at them and chased themagain.
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THE SQUIRRELS CHASED THE CROWS THE MOVING-MEN STORY 161 David was nt very near, and he hadwatched the squirrels and the crows for sometime. Then he just happened to look up, and hesaw a maid come out of the cellar door of thenew house and get some wood from the pilethat the carpenters had left. And she picked out the little pieces andput them in her apron and went in ; and,almost as soon as she was in, smoke be-gan to come out of the chimney, and Davidthought he had better go there and see whatwas going on. He walked up past his house, and stoppedand got his cart and called his cat. And hiscat came running, and he walked along, drag-ging his cart, with his shovel and his hoerattling in the bottom of it. But when he got to the road he looked upto the corner to see if there was anythingcoming, and he saw what he thought mustbe the circus just turning the corner. First there came three great horses, har-nessed abreast, and their harness was glit- 162 THE DOERS tering with chains and litt

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