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My Love To The Beaks and Tails by Annie Sise

My Love To The Beaks and Tails by Annie Sise

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My Love To The Beaks and Tails

by Annie Sise

with drawings by Patrick Swift

Readers Union, 1976, black and white illustrations in text, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, previous owners stamp on front end-paper, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear wiht a little rubbing, and bumping to edges and corners, small chips and tears, a little rubbing to cover (see photographs)

"Legs and Hullo live in an old stone cottage in the Lake District.  Legs is an insatiable collector of small furred and feathered waifs and strays while Hullo, her husband, taking the rising tide on non-paying guests very much in his stride, moves over to make room.  It all begins with George Blake and Alfred Hinds, a pair of tiny striped squirrels acquired along with the groceries in Leeds market.  In brazen defiance of their names, they produce four bumble-bee sized babies and the ensuing saga of their domestic entanglements is told with no holds barred!  the squirrels are closely followed by an equally fertile pair of doves - Lily the Pink and Baldy.  After this the ornithological flood gates open wide and from Australia to the Barbary Coast, the birds home in: a thrush, a rook, diamond doves, martins, swifts and even a kestrel; the supply is as constant and varied as the seasons."

 

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