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The Nursery, June 1881, Vol. XXIX

WHY THE CHICK CAME OUT.

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Benny Bright-Eyes, climbing over Heaps of crisp and fragrant clover, Spies the dearest, cutest thing, Hiding under Biddy's wing. What sees Benny next? A wonder! Rudely pushed quite out from under Biddy's breast, an egg comes sliding, In its shell a chicken hiding. "Ah!" says Benny as he gazes, And his merry blue eyes raises, "I know why his house he's spoiled: He's afraid of being boiled."

M. J. TAYLOR.

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Little girl and her grandmother going visiting
Little girl and her grandmother going visiting
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