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tinned its pursuit of the woodcock, struck it down and carried it 

 off, as we afterwards discovered. 



Nole. A most extraordinary fact of this kind I was myself witness 

 to, in Germany, in the excessive, cold, vile winter of 1799. A flock 

 of house sparrows pounced down on a bone, as it was a-gnawing 

 by a large dog near a dunghill, and by united force carried it off. 

 The dog drew back frightened, and growled. On the day before, 

 near Zelle, I saw a crow attack another crow, kill it and eat it. 



S. T. COLERIDGE. 



