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IN NATURE'S WAYS 



when sleeping or hatching their eggs, and being able 

 to outfly all our birds. Their families are small, each 

 pair laying only two eggs in a season ; and we usually 



Old friends the wanderer's return 



find in nature that where families are small the death- 

 rate is low. 



But our swifts lead lives at high pressure, for ever 

 flying recklessly at terrific speed, and death no doubt 



