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When the ship landed, the Sparrow flew after his friends for a while and then contemplated his new home.
All the people had brown faces and wore strange clothes. The faces of the women were covered so that one could only see their large black eyes. He also saw queer animals that walked on four legs and had great humps on their backs. Even the trees were different than those at home, there were some with long pointed leaves and brown fruit that the Sparrow relished. There was plenty to eat; here no Sparrow had to suffer hunger, and there was no snow or cold.
"Isn't this also the right country for the poor people?" the Sparrow asked himself. But then he saw that in this sunny land
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