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[0455] Mrs Saposcat.
[place = inline] [⃞][0456] Sapo loved nature, took an interest
[place = inline] [⃞][0457] This is awful.
[place = inline] [⃞][0458] Sapo loved nature, took an interest in animals and plants [place = margin left] and [place = inline] [⁁][ [place = supralinear] and]
willingly raised his eyes to the sky, day and night.
[0459] But he
did not know how to look at all these things, the looks he
rained upon them taught him nothing, [place = margin left] [₰] about them.
[0460] He confused
the birds with one another, and the trees, and could not tell one
crop from another crop.
[0461] H [place = overwritten] He did not associate the crocus with the
spring nor the c [place = supralinear] hrysanthemum with Michaelmas.
[0462] The sun, the moon,
the planets and the stars did not fill him with wonder.
[0463] He was
sometimes tempted by the knowledge of these strange things, some-
times beautiful, that he would have about him all his life. But
from his ignorance of them he drew a kind of joy, as from all
that went to swell the murmur, You are a simpleton.
[0464] But he loved
the flight of the hawk and could distinguish it from all others.
[0465] He would stand rapt [place = inline] , gazing at the long pernings, the quivering
poise, the wings lifted for the plummet drop, the wild reascent,
fascinated by such extremes of need, of pride, of patience and
solitude.




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