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    The Wild Bird: And Other Short Stories
    The Wild Bird: And Other Short Stories
    The Wild Bird: And Other Short Stories
    Ebook55 pages40 minutes

    The Wild Bird: And Other Short Stories

    By Donna Ternet, Christin Rickets and A.J. Kowalski

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    These are short stories which will bring joy to children of all ages who can
    read. The illustrations help the reader enjoy the material and hopefully
    may create an interest in song birds and perching birds or bird watching.
    The author highly recommends the reader to sit, observe and take notes of
    the various types of birds seen and their songs or calls. Many are unique
    and some species can imitate other birds. Comments may be directed to
    the author and/or AuthorHouse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 12, 2012
    ISBN9781481702171
    The Wild Bird: And Other Short Stories
    Author

    Donna Ternet

    The author is retired after 20 years miltary service in the U.S. Air Force and the 20 years as a Corrections Offcier with PA Dept. of Corrections. His travels have taken him to numerous countries in Europe and the Far East. His hobbies include writing, traveling, bird watching, gardening, and winemaking. As a reader of non-fiction, he likes surfing on the internt to expand his knowledge and present his views on various topics in short stories. Although he has taken some college courses at different locations, he’s never completed requirement for a degree. He enjoys music and musicals and his latest interest is in oil painting.

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      Book preview

      The Wild Bird - Donna Ternet

      © 2012 A.J. Kowalski. All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

      or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 11/06/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-5140-2 (sc)

      978-1-4817-0217-1 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012920940

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      CONTENTS

      The Wild Bird

      Bird Watching

      The Birthday Party

      My Wife’s New Diet Plan

      The Baby Shower

      Memories of Basic Training

      My Singles Cruise

      Small Game Hunting

      This book is dedicated to my wife Darlene and daughter Kasey who were patient with me and offered me encouragement. Also to my son A.J. (Jimmy) Kowalski Jr. who was killed in an automobile accident at age 21.

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      The Wild Bird

      Once upon a time there was a very rich old man who lived in a big house in the country. He had many servants to work for him and he did not have to work himself. But for his pleasure, he kept song birds in cages. Every day he would call his servants and tell them, Come, feed my beautiful song birds as they sing for me. If anything should ever happen to the song birds, you will surely lose your jobs. The servants would do everything he asked although at times they didn’t like it, but they wanted to keep their jobs. their work was a lot easier than having to work hard in the fields all day like the nearby farmers. The other farmers thought the old man’s servants were important because they always had money to spend, but didn’t work hard.

      Now the rich old man’s song birds were well-known and the nearby farmers and their children would come and stand close to the old man’s house so they could listen to the birds sing. But many times the servants would get angry and wouldn’t let them get too close. They were always afraid that the rich old man might decide to ask one of them to work for him and fire one of them. This was the way it was one spring day when the wild bird came flying by the big house.

      The wild bird saw the poor farmers standing close to the rich old man’s house so it flew to a nearby tree and sat above the crowd to watch and listen and find out what was going on. The old man was sitting in a large, wicker chair and as each of his birds would sing a pretty song for him, he would smile and say to his servants, Feed this bird well because it sings a pretty song today. Yes sir, cried the servants. We will do as you wish, immediately.

      Then he wild bird thought, It would be nice to live here and sing beautiful songs. The old man feeds his birds very well when they sing for him and he has servants to take care of them. "I will sing

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