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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] H}e did not associate the crocus with the
spring nor the c ^{[place = supralinear] h}rysanthemum 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.

^{[place = inline] [⃞]}[0466] I shall not give up yet. [0467] I have finished my soup and sent
back the little table to its place by the door. [0468] A light has
just gone on in one of the two windows of the house across the
way. [0469] By the two windows I mean those I can see always, without