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November, Magazine article by Juliette A. OwenEntry/Object ID
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November, Magazine article by Juliette A. Owen. Typewritten but signed by Juliette. About an abandoned pigeon fledgling she took in and nursed to health. 2 pages, 8.5 x 11. Fair condition.Context
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November is, or was last November, a squab. The ugliest, shabbiest, dirtiest little yellow-haired featherless bird, with a long, crooked nose, a lame leg and humpy back. Apparently an imperfect little pigeon that the parents had shoved out of the box- a pretty habit of bird kind. That theory would seem to account for the leg and the back, and the crooked bill was presumably the result of being literally crowded to the wall, so that the upper manible, bent down, was not kept within bounds by the lower, and so continued to grow in the long curve. Thus poor little November appeared on the ground one cold, wet day. So he, or she, was brought in, the feet, caked to helplessness with dirt, were soaked clean in warm water and the overgrown nails trimmed, the bill shortened and shaped up with embroidery scissors, the flat craw shaped out comfortably with corn and softened bread, a ladder was set up and November restored, supposedly, to the wings of his or her parents. Glancing back after entering the porch behold, jumping like a toad at the step was November, who had evidently rolled out of the box and followed.
After this performance had been repeated several times and the leg grew lamer and the back humpier, the hardest heart was bound to melt and the most sceptical mind by impressed by so heroic and intelligent a struggle for existence. So the big old cage was brought to light and sqabby was duly installed under the name and title of November, a name of flexible sex and the birth month besides, of the wisest pigeon ever hatched.
After providing himself with a home and family, he proceeded to give himself lessons in picking up food, as the method of opening theLexicon
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