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Identifier: stnicholasserial4821dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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were so effortlessthat it seemed impossible that he should overtakethe other. Yet every wing-beat brought himnearer and nearer in a flight so swift and silentthat not until the shadow of death fell upon theteal did the latter even know that he was beingpursued. Then, indeed, he squawked in mortalterror and tried desperately to increase a speedwhich already seemed impossible. Yet ever theshadow hung over him like a black shroud, andthen in a flash the little green-wings fate overtookhim. Almost too quick for eye to follow, theduck-hawk delivered the terrible slash with whichfalcons kill their prey; and in an instant the teal
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NOT UNTIL THE SHADOW OF DEATH FELL UPON THE TEAL DID HE KNOW THAT HE WAS BEING PURSUED 1064 HIGH SKY changed from a live, vibrant, arrow-swift bird toa limp mass of fluttering feathers which droppedlike a plummet through the air. With a rush,the duck-hawk swung down after his dead quarryand, catching it in his claws, swooped down toearth to feast full at his leisure. Far, far above the lower reaches of the skywhere the cloud of water-fowl were flying, aboverain and storm and snow, was a solitude enteredby only a few of the sky pilgrims. There, threemiles high, was naked space and a curved skythat shone like a great blue sun. In the north acluster of black dots showed against the blue.Swiftly they grew in size until at last, under a sunfar brighter than the one known to the earth-bound, there flashed through the glittering air aflock of golden plover. They were still wearingtheir summer suits, with black breasts and sides,while every brown-black feather on back andcrown was widely marg

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