A MARSH MYSTERY 
clear day for photographing him, we were 
obliged to keep him in durance vile for three 
weeks, on a diet of snails, ants’ eggs, and 
hens’ eggs hard boiled. Several times he 
escaped, and was recaptured without difh- 
culty. When the day of his final release 
came, we took him to the outskirts of a 
prairie, and he flew farther and more vigor- 
ously than he ever had flown before, there- 
by proving his good health under captivity. 
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