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 The Bird and the Snake Agentleman had a beautiful songbird. It could sing very sweetly and the gentleman loved to hear it. He kept it in a pretty cage and fed it with seeds. One day he hung the cage near an open window and went away. There was a large grape vine growing at the side of the house. It reached to the window. A large snake was crawling about the yard for something to eat. It heard the bird singing . It climbed up the grape vine to the window. It crept into the cage. It caught the bird and swallowed it. After it had swallowed the bird it could not get out of the cage. The gentleman came home. He went to the cage and saw the snake there. He knew it had eaten his dear little bird. He was very sorry. He killed the snake. ...

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