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Twenty-four years in different
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Hills. Not being particularly learned, he did not know the thread
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Shocked by a jackdaw's flight across the room. He simply marked
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Flying into rooms, to be decapitated by fan-blades or carefully
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The absence of uncaged birds in their homes. He thought
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