heard a very strangenoise from the top of a tree. As he was very expert, he climbed up to seewhere the noise came from, and what it was that made it. When he got halfway up the tree, two fierce white creatures dashed out and attacked him withbeak and claws, making at the same time a terrible… … THE SNOWY OWL. The man hurried down as fast as he could, but he had some difficulty inkeeping off the owls. In spite of the daylight, they darted at him again and 44 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. again, wheeled round his head, and even pursued him, much scratched andfrightened, to the very door of his…
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