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in some Minnesota pasapoplectic struggle, plover though it be
and almost every water, from Delaware Bay to the flutter and drop — a puttering, short-winded, tiny bubbling spring in some Minnesota pasapoplectic struggle, very unbecoming and ture. Neither is the killdeer her bird.
— OCR cross-column misread, involving “The Seaside Sparrows” and “The Spotted Sandpiper” at “Birds of the Salt Marsh” in “At Home with the Birds,” in Our Wonder World : A Library of Knowledge, Volume Three, The Nature Book (Chicago; 1914, 1918) : 69-141 (126)
sandy, pebbly margins, the margins of any, of
They would get up just above the grass, and
almost every water, from Delaware Bay to the
flutter and drop — a puttering, short-winded,
tiny bubbling spring in some Minnesota pas-
apoplectic struggle, very unbecoming and
ture. Neither is the killdeer her bird. The
unworthy
upland claims it, plover though it be. A bar-
“The Spotted Sandpiper. By noon I had
ren, stony hillside, or even a last year’s corn-
completed a circle...
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This volume appears to have been edited by Dallas Lore Sharp (1870-1929) (whose signature follows the introduction). wikipedia
Little can be found about the publisher George L(ee). Shuman (1867?-1930). The series went through several editions (including overhauls, additions and reorganization of content), according to LoC and Abebooks; see also wikipedia