O B ^lity to generalize his kind; \ 

 a?id he knew nothing what- ! 

 ever of his own personal 

 apjiearance except the par- 

 tial hints he may have 

 gained when he smoothed 

 hisjeathers luith his beak 

 after his bath in the morn- 

 ing. It may therefore very 

 luell be that he took this 

 sudden apparitionfor some 

 Chimcera or dire monster 

 which had taken advan- 



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