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hold who had 

 been interested 

 spectators 

 could restrain 

 their merri- 

 ment no longer, 

 and the shout 

 of laughter 

 they gave was 

 the first thing 

 which caused 

 the three men 

 in the wagon 

 to suspect 

 something 

 wrong, but it 

 was not until 

 they took the 

 birds in their 

 hands that they 

 were really sat- 

 isfied that they 

 were fakes. 



When the vacation was over, the kill-a-loos were 

 carefully packed away in the sportsmen's trunks 

 and taken home for exhibition as samples of the 

 sort of game found on the shores of Big Tink 

 Pond. 



A TOTEM KILL-A-LOO BIRD 



TWELVE FEET HIGH, BUILT 



BY STEWARD EDWARD WHITE 



FROM PLANS BY THE AUTHOR. 



