"THE LITTLE RUGGLESES BORE IT BRAVELY ([Page 36])"
THE
BIRDS’ CHRISTMAS CAROL
BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1914 AND 1916, BY KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE
THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM
EIGHT HUNDREDTH THOUSAND
The Riverside Press
TO THE THREE DEAREST CHILDREN
IN THE WORLD
BERTHA, LUCY, AND HORATIO
CONTENTS AND LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PAGE
- "The little Ruggleses bore it bravely" [(page 36)] [Frontispiece]
- VignetteTitle
- I. A Little Snow Bird [1]
- "She is a little Christmas Child" [7]
- II. Drooping Wings [10]
- III. The Birds' Nest [15]
- Carol at her window [21]
- IV. "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" [22]
- The "Window School" [31]
- V. Some Other Birds are taught to Fly [32]
- "I want ter see how yer goin' ter behave" [39]
- VI. "When the pie was opened,
- The birds began to sing!" } [48]
- "The Ruggleses never forgot it" [55]
- "I beat the hull lot o' yer!" [62]
- VII. The Birdling flies away [63]
- "My Ain Countree" [65]
- "I thought of the Star in the East" [69]