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with his wings. This brought the runaway back, and he 

 returned to the charge — if I may use such a phrase, for 

 there was no fighting in the real sense. A dozen times 

 he came and a dozen times he turned tail. How the 

 encounter would have ended cannot be told, for a rustle 

 made by the naturalist set both birds scudding ofi" into 

 the forest. 



