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Pat told me yesterday that Da.vis (the market man) had 
a young Great Horned Owl that had been given to him alive by 
Lawrence! I asked him to make further inquiries and to-day 
he brought word that Lawrence had found two young Owls in 
his woods by the river. One he caught, the other escaped. 
Davis was kind enough to send me the captive bird which 
I shall restore to its native woods as soon as it can fly 
well. It is the larger of the two and looks much as it did 
when I last saw it in the tall pine. I hope that it is true 
that the other young escaped. 
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