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THE BLACK-NECKED SWAN. 



swan and her nest were safe. Instinct had led her to take precautions, that 

 man, for want of foresight, had neglected. Much of his property was de- 

 stroyed, but the eggs of the swan escaped, for the prudent mother had raised 

 them just high enough to be above the flood. 



The whistling swan is not quite so graceful as the tame swan, of which 



