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watching. I spoke in my prettiest bird notes, and 

 told him he was quite safe in my neighbourhood ; 

 but no ! till the bird was out of sight he watched. 

 Then, in a moment, he was all hunger and confi- 



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dence again. Perhaps he thought it was a hawk, 

 although the size and motion and everything were 

 so very different from a hawk's. Perhaps it had 

 been taught to fear all large birds. For that 

 birds, besides learning from the example of their 



