Burford Cottage, and Its Robin-Red-Breast (Classic Reprint)

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Ah! Maria, there is the short, sweet note ofthe Robin' red-breast already 2 cried Mr. Paulett to his wife, as he turned from one of the open French windows toward the breakfast-table, at Burford Cottage, one fine morn ing, last autumn: we are now only at the beginning of October, and yet the Robin appears to be growing sociable, and as if willing to establish himself among us, against the season of winter frosts. I have heard him once or twice before, at this time and in the evening, out of that fir, beyond the maple.

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