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| | The Baldwin Project: A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | Natty was a gentle, harmless, improvident little man, who [62] would never do any hard word for pay,—it gave him cricks in his back, he said,—but would cheerfully half kill himself to go fishing through the ice, or to oblige a neighbor. |
 | | Mother and chicks have a contented little twitter at such times that I have never heard under any other circumstances, which is probably intended to encourage each other and keep all the family within hearing as they run about in the twilight. |
 | | He gives out very little scent at such times, and you keen-nosed dog, that would wind him at a stone's throw in the autumn, will now pass close by without noticing him, and must almost run over the bird before he draws to a point or shows any signs that game is near. |
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