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murmur, very engaging to the imagination, and not unlike the 

 cry of a pack of hounds in hollow, echoing woods ; or the rush- 

 ing of the wind in tall trees, or the tumbling of the tide upon a 

 pebbly shore. When this ceremony is over, with the last gleam 

 of day, they retire for the night to the deep beechen woods of 

 listed and Hopley. We remember a little girl who, as she was 

 going to bed, used to remark on such an occurrence, in the true 

 spirit of physico-theology, that the rooks were saying their 

 prayers ; and yet this child was much too young to be aware 

 that the Scriptures have said of the Deity that " He feedetli 

 the ravens who call upon Him." 



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