BIRD STORIES 



Although Solomon had night eyes, he was not blind by 

 day. He passed the brightest hours quietly for the most 

 part, dozing with both his outer eyelids closed, or some- 

 times sitting with those opeji and only the thin inner lid 

 drawn side wise across his eye. It seems strange to think 

 of his having three eyelids; but, then, perhaps we came 

 pretty near having a third one ourselves; for there is a 

 little fold tucked down at the inner corner, which might 

 have been a third lid that could move across the eye 

 sidewise, if it had grown bigger. And sometimes, of a 

 dazzling day in winter, when the sun is shining on the 



He passed the brightest hours dozing. 

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