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... never do tone down , and are far too hot in summer and too cold in winter . The early winter is far more often wet and misty here than frosty and snowy . Perhaps it is about one year in seven that is really severe , with snow enough to ...
... never do tone down , and are far too hot in summer and too cold in winter . The early winter is far more often wet and misty here than frosty and snowy . Perhaps it is about one year in seven that is really severe , with snow enough to ...
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... never attend to the ordinary glories of the sky ; just as they go to some trumpery exhibition , and leave the British Museum and National Gallery to country cousins . The Great Bear , who , as Pope makes Homer say , ' Never dips his ...
... never attend to the ordinary glories of the sky ; just as they go to some trumpery exhibition , and leave the British Museum and National Gallery to country cousins . The Great Bear , who , as Pope makes Homer say , ' Never dips his ...
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... charming long - tailed tit never thus comes - I suspect he hybernates somehow . Blackbirds and thrushes do not appreciate crumbs , and puff themselves out с very disconsolately when neither worms nor berries can be had JANUARY 17.
... charming long - tailed tit never thus comes - I suspect he hybernates somehow . Blackbirds and thrushes do not appreciate crumbs , and puff themselves out с very disconsolately when neither worms nor berries can be had JANUARY 17.
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... never attempt it . Kingsley says that wrens roll themselves together in a ball and sleep for the winter ; but I have certainly often seen Kitty hopping about on a bank on warm days in the winter , perhaps come out to reconnoitre . How ...
... never attempt it . Kingsley says that wrens roll themselves together in a ball and sleep for the winter ; but I have certainly often seen Kitty hopping about on a bank on warm days in the winter , perhaps come out to reconnoitre . How ...
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... ' tis pity ; pity ' tis , ' tis true . ' A labourer's widow tells us that her husband has seen them fight to the death in the woods ; and they certainly never " seem to increase in numbers , though they have broods JANUARY 23.
... ' tis pity ; pity ' tis , ' tis true . ' A labourer's widow tells us that her husband has seen them fight to the death in the woods ; and they certainly never " seem to increase in numbers , though they have broods JANUARY 23.
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