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Show CLEAN CONSCIENCE ,, r ar v rXr fw. It was a very pretty hat. Very pretty, indeed. But it had feathers, j That was unfortunate because the i lady who was eyeing it covetously : couldn't bear to think of little birds being killed for their ornamental feathers. "I'd like to buy it," she said, i "but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to sleep properly knowing that some poor feathered creature gave his life for me." "Don't worry about that," said the milliner, "those feathers were taken from the carcass of an owl. An owl, you know, lives almost' exclusively ex-clusively on mice. So you can see for yourself that it is more of a cat than a bird." |