"GOLDFINCH AND THE FAIRIES."
"My Datfdy''Brought me home a young goldfinch. At first its feathers were only plain like a sparrow's, but now it hasVgrovra* some pretty red and yellow ones/ all' round "its head and on its wings. When..-we put a thistle in its cage; it pick?/out: all the 'faries' to get the seed underneath. Then they float all around the cage, and the goldfinch flies too; and the faster the bird flies, the faster' the ' fairies' go." - "WIND FAIRY." Miramar.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 18
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