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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 572

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THE HUGE MOUTH OF A SHARK. though they attain a length of from forty to fiftyfeet, are harmless. They have small teeth, andfeed on the minute organisms that abound on thesurface of the sea. They are dull and sluggish. 19.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 1037 THE LAST PASSENGER-PIGEON The wild… … THE LAST PASSENGER-PIGEON. This last of the passenger-pigeons is in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden. bers. Our grandfathers tell of some that wereso large that their passing caused a darknesssimilar to that of an eclipse. Audubon, writing of a similar flock, says: The more I advanced the…

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