Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 713
1066 HIGH SKY [OCT air was full of their whirling, curving flight. Withthem went their big brothers the purple martinsand the night-hawks, with their white-barredwings which at times, as they whirled downward, mammal, however, is farther along in the scale oflife than a bird, and more efficient,… … MILES ABOVE THE GROUND THIS EARTH-BORN MAMMAL WAS BEATING THE BIRDS IN THEIR OWN ELEMENT made a hollow, twanging noise. With the flock,too, were the swifts, who sleep and nest in chim-neys and whose winter home no man has yet dis-covered. As the turquoise of the curved skydeepened into sapphire, a…
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