Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 611
e was a pebbly yard inwhich the dogs had exercised. The cormorantswaddled about this yard and seemed to be hav-ing a fine time, until one morning I noticed thatone of them was sitting on the ground, unableto rise. He did not waddle up to get his mealof whole fish, each usually about half as longas… … THE GREEDY CORMORANT. of him! And he seemed surprisingly heavy.I at once called the head keeper, who decidedto investigate by means of a surgical operation.We took out two pounds of stones, one ofwhich was four inches long, two and a halfinches wide, and about half an inch thick!The poor chap…
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