How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts/The Butter-ball; The Buttercup

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4358837How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts — The Butter-ball; The Buttercup1917Robert Williams Wood
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The Butter-ball. The Butter-cup.

The little Butter-cup can sing,
From morn 'till night like anything.
The quacking of the Butter-ball,
Cannot be called a song at all.
We thus the flower may learn to know,
Its song is reproduced below.

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