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comrade. This is usually addressed to the 

 ranks and means ' attention. 1 



No. 9. 



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Early in April there began to be great 

 doings among the crows. Some new cause of 

 excitement seemed to have come on them. 

 They spent half the day among the pines, in- 

 stead of foraging from dawn till dark. Pairs 

 and trios might be seen chasing each other, and 

 from time to time they showed off in various 

 feats of flight. A favorite sport was to dart 

 down suddenly from a great height toward 

 some perching crow, and just before touching 

 it to turn at a hairbreadth and rebound in the air 

 so fast that the wings of the swooper whirred 

 with a sound like distant thunder. Sometimes 

 one crow would lower his head, raise every 

 feather, and coming close to another would gur- 

 gle out a long note like 



No. 10. 



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