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The birds of God

Theron Brown · 1912 · Scanned text · Free in the US

68,357 words · about 4 h 47 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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About this book

Author
Theron Brown
Language
English
Published
1912
Length
68,357 words · about 4 h 47 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (4)
  1. Front matter about 3 min
  2. Contents about 1 min
  3. XI Christianizing a about 1 min
  4. Introduction about 4 h 42 min

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Front matter

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Contents

Vll of

A Famous Gander .

The Child and the La

XI Christianizing a

XXII

The Warning

Mining Camp .

Weathercock

Vlll

CONTENTS

Birds and the Origin of Music

Singing Souls

A Land of No Death i: Land of Song .

No Trees, No Song-birds

Poet and Bird .

A Sacramental Robin .

The Wood Thrush

The Bobolink . . .

A Tabernacle Bird .

A Singer's Gift .

Serenades of Solitude

Easter Praise in a Tree

She Excused her Canary

An Orchestra of Escaped Vocalists

The Music of Ages . 267 Jenny Lind's Rival . 270 Sambo on the Mocking-bird

270 Indians and Bird-song .

272 The Shadow of a Bird .

273 Waiting for the Song

274 Voices of August

275 A Winter Singer 277 The Poets' Themes . 277 An Old Bard's Legacy . 279 Morning Joy

282 A Sabbath-breaking (?)

282 Starling ....

The Lays of Paradise

283 God's Own Choristers .

294 296 297

Poor Little Queen of Birdland

A Boy's Target ....

The Herods of Bird-slaughter

Finley's Ghastly Story .

299 300

302 305

What it Costs to Punish

these Murders . . . 307

The Lost Ectopistes Migra-

torius 312

A Converted Bird-killer . 314

Responsibility and Remedy 315

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