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Title: Birds of the Bible
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham New York, Eaton and Mains
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ely colored j)lumesover a yard in length, of many spines thickness, of everydelicate tint of the rainbow, and selling from forty to aluuulred dollars. But I wish I had just one fine, long single featherdroj)ped naturally by a bird as it crossed the hills ofKdom in changing feeding grounds from Arabia to Syria;or along the foothills of the Lebanon range where it meetsthe desert. Then that plume would symbolize to me notonly all the great and noble bird means, not all a thing ofbiauty represents, but it would be the kiV to a vision inwhich I would see the tawny hot sands of the glowingeastern desert, the purple skies, the shinnnering pahn-shaded pools of water, the wilderness like inito that inwhich John cried out, and the long line of swaying camelsstarting across the trackless sands, perhaps on the wayto Babvlon. THE COCK AND HEN IIozc often zcu/dd I liai-c i^-athcrid tli// child re ti to^itJicr,Even as a hcii gittlurcth Jici ozcn brood iituhr hir iciiiiis.And yc zcoidd not! —I^tkh.
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Chapter IXTHE COCK AND HEN Skvkuai, of the (llscip.is (luotcd Iliiu, but -Tcsus ITiiii-sclt was rfspoiisihlc tor tlic only dircct mention of whatwe call domestic fowl, in the Bible. It was the con-stant ))ractico of the (yreat Teacher to draw comparisonsand similes from objects in sioht of His hearers, andmuch of the stiikino- force of His work is due to thisability to ))oint a moral from simple homely thino-s, sothat all hearers received the full force of the illustra-tions. He was never siekint^ after oratorical effects, andnever tryiii<4 to ))rove how much He knew. On the con-trary, it stcmed to be a continual purpose to point outto His followers the commonest thin<;s of life, and surprisethem with how much tJtci) knew that they had not nah/Ad. If you watch an audience which a speaker is tryingto daze with his mental attainments, you may see mouthssliohtly ao-;ij)e; but you will see cold, hard faces. Butif the talker has the wit to point his moral, and adornhis tale with illu

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