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Idle Days in Pataoonia. 



splash of the stone reached ns he dashed in and 

 against the rushes once more. After a violent 

 struggle he succeeded in getting through them, and, 

 finding himself in deep water, struck straight out, 

 and then began swimming about in all directions, 



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JIajor and the FlnuiiD'i'o. 



until, getting to windward of the bird, he followed 

 up the scent and found it. This was the easiest 

 pai't of the task, ;is tlie bird was very large, and 

 when Major got back to the rushes with it, and 1 

 heard him crashing and floundering through, snort- 



