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Think how interested you'd be in
a yellow and black bird singing the Spinning Song from Martha, while you
couldn't accuse the bird of having stolen it from Flotow, could you?
Surely the bird holds right of priority!"
"If you weren't a little fool and talking purposely to irritate me, you'd
almost cause me to ask if you seriously mean that?" said Mrs. Minturn.
"Why," laughed Leslie, determined not to become provoked on this her great
day, "that is a matter you can test for yourself. If you haven't a score
of Martha, get one and I'll take you where you can hear a bird sing that
strain, then you may judge for yourself."
"I don't believe it!" said Mrs. Minturn tersely, "but if it were true,
that would be the _most wonderful experience_ I ever had in my life."
"And it would cost you only ten cents," scored Leslie. "You needn't ride
beyond the end of the car line for that, while a woman who can dance all
night surely could _walk_ far enough, to reach any old orchard. That's
what I am trying to _tell_ you.


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