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Kansas (.'ity. 
A Fishy Bird Siory. 
The Colamhvn Herald tells of the neat 
manner in which a mother Quail piled 
up the twenty-eight half shells from 
which her brood was hatched, arranging 
them like tea cups, one within the other. 
There are fish stories and snake stories, 
and there is no reason why there should 
not be l)ird stories. 
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