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I remember her saying to me once, in her school-girl slang, when she was seventeen or so, 'Well, I'd like to think I went on, mother; I think it's simply rotten pipping out. I like being alive, and I'd like to have tons more of it but there it is, I can't believe anything so weird and it's no use trying. That terrible old teaching! Thank God we are outgrowing much of it.
It is almost universally held to be unlucky to kill a robin. He had at that time a pig which was ready for pipping; she had a litter of seven, and they all died. When the pig was killed the two hams went bad; presently three of the family had a fever, and my father himself died of it. The neighbours said it was all through killing the robin."
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