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... seen , and also , to be truthful , nearly as much about ruby - crowned kinglets and water ouzels as it is about swans . Let us begin with swans . This first story has to do with Ruth Wallerstein , whom older members of the Madison ...
... seen , and also , to be truthful , nearly as much about ruby - crowned kinglets and water ouzels as it is about swans . Let us begin with swans . This first story has to do with Ruth Wallerstein , whom older members of the Madison ...
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... seen the parents feeding the young , even seen their red mouths gaping , not upwards like young robins , but downwards , in an opening of the nest right above the racing water . How the nestlings are secured inside is a puzzle to the ...
... seen the parents feeding the young , even seen their red mouths gaping , not upwards like young robins , but downwards , in an opening of the nest right above the racing water . How the nestlings are secured inside is a puzzle to the ...
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... seen may be seen again , that the world we live in is stable enough for us to feel at home in . When we have seen the prothonotary a second time , we do not lose the first experience of it . Although we cannot have again the original ...
... seen may be seen again , that the world we live in is stable enough for us to feel at home in . When we have seen the prothonotary a second time , we do not lose the first experience of it . Although we cannot have again the original ...
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