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WITH THE WADERS
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sparrow, I explain to my benefactor, who waits for me to take an observation. The species was discovered here, I tell him, and was named in the town's honor. He seems interested. "I should n't have known it," he says. So I have done some good to-day, though I have thought only of enjoying myself.