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Idle Days in Pat agon 



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coloured wings wide open and rigid, so tliat as the 

 bird that bad clutclied the grass with his great 

 feathered claws, swayed his body slowly from side 



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Mafrellnnic eap-'e owl. 



to side — just as a snake about to strike sways his 

 head, or as an angry watchful cat moves its tail — 

 first the tip of one, then of the other wing touched 



