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away and the bird be quite game enough 
to tackle another before morning. 
It is to be hoped that the various 
wild creatures in the countryside—the 
birds, beasts, insects, and reptiles—don’t 
feel the pain and the fear which we 
should feel. For they nearly all depend 
upon killing and eating something 
weaker than themselves, and they in 
their turn are always liable to be 
devoured by something stronger than 
themselves. And there is no end to this 
state of things ; by night as well as by 
day the constant and unending strife 
goes on between the different members 
of the animal and insect world. Each 
and all of them try to put off the evil 
day as long as possible, and each one 
has its own ways of evading capture for 
itself and of obtaining its own food ; 
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