title: The Birds' Christmas Carol (Dramatized Edition)
author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
description: 69 Page small format 7 3/4 by 5 1/2 inch hardcover with impressed decorative cover...by the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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  The Birds' Christmas Carol
  
  
    
    
  I. A LITTLE SNOW-BIRD  
    
  II. DROOPING WINGS  
    
  III. THE BIRD'S NEST  
    
  IV. "BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER"  
    
  V. SOME OTHER BIRDS ARE TAUGHT TO FLY  
    
  VI. "WHEN THE PIE WAS OPENED, THE BIRDS BEGAN TO SING"  
    
  VII. THE BIRDLING FLIES AWAY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Birds' Christmas Carol
  
  
  ### Kate Douglas Wiggin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To
  
  
  
  
  
  The Three Dearest Children in the World,
  
  
  BERTHA, LUCY, AND HORATIO.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "O little ones, ye cannot know
  
  
  The power with which ye plead,
  
  
  Nor why, as on through life we go,
  
  
  The little child doth lead."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I. A LITTLE SNOW BIRD.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the
  
  
  dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child
  
  
  was born in the Bird household.
  
  
  
  
  
  They had intended to name the baby Lucy, i