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It is a bird, though very rare in this country about the size of a pigeon; the body brown, and the belly white: by a wonderful instinct it makes its nest upon the surface of the sea, and lays its eggs in the month of November, when the Mediterranean is always calm and smooth as a mill-pond. The people about here call them martinets, because they begin to hatch about Martinmass.
It is quite useless to argue with old Dodden; he only shakes his head and says firmly, "An old man, seventy-five come Martinmass knows more o' life than a young chap, stands ter reason"; besides, his epitome of the town life he knows nothing of was a just one as far as it went; and his own son is the sweeper of a Holborn crossing, and many other things that he should not be; but that is the parson's secret and mine.
For nearly half a sheet she keeps to the point with an excellent discretion in language; then suddenly breaks out: "It was fully my intention to have left this at Martinmass, but the Lord fixes the bounds of our habitation.
For nearly half a sheet she keeps to the point with an excellent discretion in language then suddenly breaks out: 'It was fully my intention to have left this at Martinmass, but the Lord fixes the bounds of our habitation.
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