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 you have never before meditated on a small bird’s life, you will acquire a new notion: that you harm yourself and your children if you injure this true small friend. You will then recognize in yourself a protector not only of the Swallow but of all useful birds, which were sent into the world to do good to mankind, and are therefore not to be killed for vanity’s sake.