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he rouses himself , treads the bird firmly into its grave , pulls it by the feathers this way and that way , and having settled it to his mind , begins to shovel in the earth ; this is done in a very short time , by means of his broad ...
he rouses himself , treads the bird firmly into its grave , pulls it by the feathers this way and that way , and having settled it to his mind , begins to shovel in the earth ; this is done in a very short time , by means of his broad ...
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and thus , under the most disadvantageous circum - turned up , and bent over its back , and every now stances , the lustre of the bird of paradise , or the snowy purity of the swan , is never to be seen dimmed by dust or defiled by mud ...
and thus , under the most disadvantageous circum - turned up , and bent over its back , and every now stances , the lustre of the bird of paradise , or the snowy purity of the swan , is never to be seen dimmed by dust or defiled by mud ...
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As far back beak are the chief defence of this bird . ' Tis very as 1789 , some bones incrusted by a stalagmite , and hard to catch it in the woods , but easier in open erroneously supposed to belong to the Dodo , were places , because ...
As far back beak are the chief defence of this bird . ' Tis very as 1789 , some bones incrusted by a stalagmite , and hard to catch it in the woods , but easier in open erroneously supposed to belong to the Dodo , were places , because ...
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