Chico, the story of a homing pigeon
Lucy Mansfield Blanchard Blanchard · English
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Chico, the story of a homing pigeon
Lucy Mansfield Blanchard Blanchard · English
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CHAPTER I OLD PAOLO Some years before the Great War, there lived in a little house on one of the side canals of Venice, an honest workman and his family. Giovanni Minetti, for such was his name, was employed in a certain glass factory in Murano, while, in all Venice, there was no one with fingers more deft in the making of beautiful lace than Luisa, his wife. At the time of our story, Andrea, the elder child, was nearly eight, and his little sister, Maria, two years younger. Con
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