A Tale of Two Martins 
young ones. By this time the flies were 
getting scarce ; and in spite of their hard 
work, from the very first awaking of 
dawn till quite late at night, the young 
birds did not grow strong and big as they 
should have done. And now the time 
drew near for them to go southwards ; 
many of their friends had already de- 
parted, and hundreds were daily arriving 
and departing on their long journey, and 
their young were not yet out of the nest. 
How would they be able to fly the long 
distances, and keep up with the others, 
without any previous practice? Daily 
they strove hard to obtain food for them ; 
but the days went by, until at last they 
abandoned the hopeless task, and with 
sad hearts followed their friends and kin- 
dred to the warm and sunny south. The 
struggle had been too hard for them, 
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