Jeanne-Marie is a little Canadian girl who is being taken care of by an aunt in Quebec while her mother is away and her father is North in the lumber camps. Her greatest joy in life is her little canary Poli and the great tragedy of the story comes with Poli's disappearance. How Jeanne-Marie goes to her grandmother's farm in the country and there experiences the hardships of a country winter; how she makes friends of the farm animals; how she makes a patchwork quilt; and how when she returns to the city, she recovers the lost Poli and gives him up to the little girl who has had him all winter and who needs him more than she does, are some of the incidents in a simple convincing story which will please little girls.

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