YA HONK ! 
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followed them to the nests by the northern ponds, 
where they could carefully guard and conceal their 
precocious broods, where, helpless in the moulting 
season, many would fall easy victims of hungry 
Esquimaux and Indians, and where, with renewed 
strength, they would respond again to the strong call 
of the land of perpetual summer* 
