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alighted he invariably stood watching me with his legs set ready for another jump in case of danger. Nevertheless I soon made
sure that he was my man for I found that in jumping he mad the shallow pits I had observed at the termination of the pattern
I was studying. but no matter how patiently I waited he wouldn t underline: walk while I was sufficiently near to observe
they are so nearly the color of the sand I therefore caught one lifted his wing covers cut off about half of each wing with
my pen knife, carried him to a favorable place on the sand. At first he did nothing but jump make dimples but soon became
weary underlined: walked in common rhythm with all his six legs. my interest you may guess while I watche the embroidery the
written music laid down in a beautiful ribbon-like strip behind illegible 00691 9 I glowed with wild joy as if I had
found a new glacier copied specimens of the precious fabric into my note book strode away with my own feet sinking with a
dull craunch craunch craunch in the hot gray sand glad to believe that the dark cloudy vicissitudes of the Oakland period
had not dimmed my vision in the least Surely Mother Nature pitied the poor boy showed him pictures Happen what would deleted:
my fever thirst, or sun stroke my joy for that day was complete. yet I was to receive still more, A train of curving tracks
with a line in the middle next fixed my attention almost before I had time to make a guess concerning this author, a small
hawk came shooting down vertically out of the sky a few steps ahead of me picked up something in his talons, after rising
thirty or forty feet over head, he dropped it by the roadside as if to show me what it was. I ran forward