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ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS 



scene I have described, would be able to say from his 

 very heart, "Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in 

 peace." 



Quitting Poole, I ran for ten miles along a continuous 

 thoroughfare, through Bournemouth to Christchurch, 

 with the ugliness and infernal jar and clang of the 

 electric trams the whole way. Only when I got to the 

 shade of the grey old priory church did I feel that I 

 was safely out of Pandemonium and on the threshold 

 of that county richest of all in wild life which continually 

 calls me back from all others, east, west, and north, to 

 its heaths and forests and rivers. 



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