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| In the alley the boy boys, who belonged to the educated classes, socially speaking; but, according to abilities, they ranked in the lowest class in the school. These bought the bird for threepence; and so the copying clerk was carried back to Copenhagen. “It's a good thing that I am dreaming,” he said, “or I should become really angry a police shieldcould hold me upside down and drainmy guts . First I was a poet , and now I' m a lark ! Yes , it must have been the poetic nature which transformed me into that little creature. It is a miserable state of things, especially when one falls into the hands of boys . I should like to know what the end of it will be .” The boys carried him into a very elegant room. A stout smiling lady received them. But she was not at all gratified to see the common field bird, as she called the lark, coming in too. Only for that day she would consent to it; but they must put the bird in the empty cage which stood by the window . “Perhaps that will please Polly , ” she added , and laughed at a great parrot swinging himself proudly in his ring in the handsome brass cage . “It's Polly's birthday,” she said, fatuously, “so the little field bird shall congratulate him.” Polly did not answer a single word; he only swung proudly to and fro . But a pretty bird , who had been brought here last summer out of his warm fragrant fatherland , began to sing loudly . “Screamer!” said the lady; and she threw a white handkerchief over the cage. “Piep! piep!” sighed he; “here's a terrible snowstorm . And thus sighing , he was silent . |
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