Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 103
also The oryx, or gemsbok, feeds on succulent veg-named peetweet. You can find it near etation, so that it is able to subsist for severalalmost any body of water, from a ditch to an months, at least, without drinking. Some natu-ralists assert that it never drinks. You willrecall, as previously… … THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. ocean, and sometimes on dry uplands andwoody slopes. Its continual bowing and see-sawing gives it a very absurd and laughableappearance. By the way, have you ever read that delight-ful little poem, The Sandpiper, by CeliaThaxter ? He has no thought of any wrong; He scans me…
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