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Freckles

CHAPTER XIV
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Freckles idly wondered whether the nerve-racking rasps they occasionally emitted indicated domestic felicity or a raging quarrel.

He could not decide.

A sheitpoke, with flaring crest, went stalking across a bare space close to the creek's mouth.

A stately brown bittern waded into the clear-flowing water, lifting his feet high at every step, and setting them down carefully, as if he dreaded wetting them, and with slightly parted beak, stood eagerly watching around him for worms.

Behind him were some mighty trees of the swamp above, and below the bank glowed a solid wall of goldenrod.
No wonder the ancients had chosen yellow as the color to represent victory, for the fierce, conquering hue of the sun was in it.


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