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the sods of poa, the heavy mosses, and the fatty skins 
of the birds around us. But they would none of them 
burn; and the most fastidious consoled himself at last 
with the doubt whether heat, though concentrating 
llavor, might not impair some other excellence. We 
limited ourselves to an average of a bird a-piece per 
meal,— of choice, not of necessity,— and renewed the 
zest of the table with the best salad in the world,— 
raw eggs and cochlearia. 
It was one glorious holiday, our week at Providence 
Vor,. II.—18 
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