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... mind if we just looked in . They were not far away , we knew , for somewhere down in the briery tangle we heard an anxious , " Chut ! Chut ! " But as the camera - man sun was getting low , and the wanted to make some other calls , we ...
... mind if we just looked in . They were not far away , we knew , for somewhere down in the briery tangle we heard an anxious , " Chut ! Chut ! " But as the camera - man sun was getting low , and the wanted to make some other calls , we ...
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... mind of the drake , and that was home . Several times we headed him off and brought him back , till , finally , on the third or fourth day , I said to my son , " If that drake is really bound to go home , he shall have an opportunity to ...
... mind of the drake , and that was home . Several times we headed him off and brought him back , till , finally , on the third or fourth day , I said to my son , " If that drake is really bound to go home , he shall have an opportunity to ...
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... mind ; he soon left the station road , and went around a house through a vineyard till he struck a stone fence that crossed his course at right angles ; this he followed eastward till it was joined by a barbed - wire fence , under which ...
... mind ; he soon left the station road , and went around a house through a vineyard till he struck a stone fence that crossed his course at right angles ; this he followed eastward till it was joined by a barbed - wire fence , under which ...
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Elizabeth Virginia Brown. soft note of the mallard . seemed to cross his mind . To use his wings never Well , I am bound to confess that I helped the drake over the wall , but I set him down in the road as impartially as I could . How ...
Elizabeth Virginia Brown. soft note of the mallard . seemed to cross his mind . To use his wings never Well , I am bound to confess that I helped the drake over the wall , but I set him down in the road as impartially as I could . How ...
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... mind them . She thought only of Molly and her joy . She reached the door , and opened it softly and peeped in . Molly was leaning back on her pillow , very white and languid , but she was look- her eye . ing for her , and she smiled THE ...
... mind them . She thought only of Molly and her joy . She reached the door , and opened it softly and peeped in . Molly was leaning back on her pillow , very white and languid , but she was look- her eye . ing for her , and she smiled THE ...
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