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... ; these travellers are martins ; and , if you wish , I will tell you more about them . Mr. Wilson , whom I have been reading to - day , calls them birds of passage . " " What does that mean , Mother ? " " 10 WHAT THE ANIMALS DO AND SAY .
... ; these travellers are martins ; and , if you wish , I will tell you more about them . Mr. Wilson , whom I have been reading to - day , calls them birds of passage . " " What does that mean , Mother ? " " 10 WHAT THE ANIMALS DO AND SAY .
Page 11
... birds , and learning their history , thinks that these fly a great way off to a warm- er country as winter approaches , and that they return again in the spring . " " But how can they find the way ? " asked Frank . " All that we know ...
... birds , and learning their history , thinks that these fly a great way off to a warm- er country as winter approaches , and that they return again in the spring . " " But how can they find the way ? " asked Frank . " All that we know ...
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... birds always know the way , and arrive with unerring cer- tainty at their place of destination . Our great poet , Bryant , has written some beautiful lines to a water - fowl , which express this idea . I will repeat these lines to you ...
... birds always know the way , and arrive with unerring cer- tainty at their place of destination . Our great poet , Bryant , has written some beautiful lines to a water - fowl , which express this idea . I will repeat these lines to you ...
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... with a variety of apartments and conveniences ; these houses are regularly occupied every spring , and the same individual birds have been known to return to the same box for many successive years . WHAT THE ANIMALS DO AND SAY . 15.
... with a variety of apartments and conveniences ; these houses are regularly occupied every spring , and the same individual birds have been known to return to the same box for many successive years . WHAT THE ANIMALS DO AND SAY . 15.
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... bird , and will attack hawks , crows , and even great bald eagles ; he whirls around and around them , and torments them , till , at last , he succeeds in driving them off . This makes the martin a very valuable friend to the farmer ...
... bird , and will attack hawks , crows , and even great bald eagles ; he whirls around and around them , and torments them , till , at last , he succeeds in driving them off . This makes the martin a very valuable friend to the farmer ...
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