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plation of the steady glow of the gas-lamps. 

 On another occasion a Woodcock blundered 

 against the window of a hotel I was staying 

 in, in a small Welsh town, evidently attracted 

 by the lamplight streaming through the un- 

 blinded window. I could have secured the 

 bird as it fell all of a heap ; but after I had 

 observed it a few moments, it recovered and 

 stole away into the darkness, no doubt won- 

 dering, as many more learned beings have 

 wondered, at the vast number of things there 

 are in the world '* which no feller can under- 

 stand." 



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