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dom" runs him down in freebooter fashion. The fish-hawk has only to choose between being eaten himself, or dropping the meal that has cost him perhaps hours of watching and more than one futile attempt to catch it.
It is said that Benjamin Franklin, that man who had common sense raised to the degree of genius, was very desirous of having the turkey accepted as a national emblem, claiming that it was of American origin, was reasonably good looking, fine eating, and peaceable; but he was overruled, and the eagle that has done duty for thousands of years on national banners and royal scutcheons, sometimes with one head, and sometimes with two, was chosen in the same capacity for the young Republic.
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