Silverspot 

 The Story of a Crow 



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r OW many of us have ever got to 

 know a wild animal ? I do not 

 mean merely to meet with one once 

 or twice, or to have one in a cage, 

 but to really know it for a long 

 time while it is wild, and to get an 

 insight into its life and history. The trouble 

 usually is to know one creature from his fellow. 

 One fox or crow is so much like another that 

 we cannot be sure that it really is the same 

 next time we meet. But once in awhile there 

 arises an animal who is stronger or wiser than 

 his fellow, who becomes a great leader, who is, 

 as we would say, a genius, and if he is bigger, 



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