Feathered Fiction
Feathered Fiction This short story has certain words incomplete. Insert letters above the dots to make complete words which are the names of birds. The sloping lines in a bird’s name indicate separate words in the story. Sometimes the bird name sounds like the word making up the sense of the story but is spelt differently.
M . . t . n looked smart in his . . v . coloured suit as he rang the bell at . . . . t . . g . . . hall, the home of his girl friend . . . . y . . . n . The door was ajar and M . . . . . heard the gardener John J . . talking to M . v . s, the maid, saying "Don't be such a baby B . . . . . g, I only did it for a L . . . ." J . . . / . . w the butler, showed M . . . . . indoors where he found poor . . . . y . . . n suffering from . . . u . h and W . . / n . . k. She felt cold and miserable so M . . . . . drew the . . . . . over her and turned on the radio from which came strains of the . . . . . . . . . . suite. W . . t . . . , the dog, was lying there; he was black with a W . . . . / . h . . . t and G . . d . . / . y . . A brother brought in her supper of B . . . k . . . d and P . . . . . pie. " Don't be C . . . s / . . . l" she said, "I'm afraid I cannot S . . . . . w it, give it to R . . . n". Later, M . . . . . called her a little G . . . . , for when he was about to kiss her goodbye, she . . . . ed away knowing he . . . . / . e . . / . . and so he left having a little . . . u . . to himself.
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