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TRAVELS ABOUT HOME 



ing scene of our relations, the most skeptical could not doubt 

 that I was not only intelligible, but eloquently expressive, to 

 the five birds on the limb, which, in quick response to my 

 question, "Are you not very hungry!" lifted up their heads 

 in a mute but unanimous and unmistakable "Yes, indeed we 

 are." 



" Yes, indeed we are " 



