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swallow a long piece of cord string it got wrapped around the root of 

 his tongue, so that he could not release himself from it. When his 

 agitated mistress tried to come to his relief, he gave the string a sharp 

 jerk that pulled his tongue out of root — an injury that he did not long 

 survive. His guardians were stricken with a grief that they could not 

 describe without tears, and they mourned the loss of their pet as if he 

 had been a human member of the household. 



Photo by E. E. Johnson. 



GREEN HERON. 



