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BIRDS OF THE WAVE AND WOODLAND 



the little assassin who murders their young that they abandon 

 their own nestlinors to their fate without, apparently, any 



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•' In '^ome lialu of fan and hamUi. " 



compunction, and concentrate 

 their affection and their pride 

 upon the solitary monster that is 

 left, the destroyer of the rest ? 

 i\nd even when the thino- has 



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grown so big that its open mouth 

 is almost larcj'e enouo-h to eno^ulf 



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::^^) ' its foster-parents, they go on 



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"^ feedinof it and followino^ it about 



as if fascinated by the wretch. Those who wish us to find 

 "sermons in stones, and good in everything," must surely 



