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and tried to revive him, but without success. 
A half-swallowed cedar worm seemed to tell 
the story. Unwilling to leave him captive 
in the box and unable to free him, his brave 
little father had brought him poisoned food. 
Where had he learned such wisdom, if 
wisdom it be ? And how did he realize 
that the little one was beyond his help ? 
And having given him the fatal dose, why 
leave him ? This is not imagination, but 
fact, attested by several witnesses. Yet who 
can riddle me the how and the why? Never 
since then have I had the courage for further 
experiments along that line. 
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