. St. Nicholas [serial]. 1066 HIGH SKY [OCT air was full of their whirling, curving flight. Withthem went their big brothers the purple martinsand the night-hawks, with their white-barredwings which at times, as they whirled downward, mammal, however, is farther along in the scale oflife than a bird, and more efficient, even as a the pricked-up ears of the bat caught the swishof the falcons wings, the beats of its own skin-. MILES ABOVE THE GROUND THIS EARTH-BORN MAMMAL WAS BEATING THE BIRDS IN THEIR OWN ELEMENT made a hollow, twanging noise. With the flock,too, were the swifts, who s
. St. Nicholas [serial]. 1066 HIGH SKY [OCT air was full of their whirling, curving flight. Withthem went their big brothers the purple martinsand the night-hawks, with their white-barredwings which at times, as they whirled downward, mammal, however, is farther along in the scale oflife than a bird, and more efficient, even as a the pricked-up ears of the bat caught the swishof the falcons wings, the beats of its own skin-. MILES ABOVE THE GROUND THIS EARTH-BORN MAMMAL WAS BEATING THE BIRDS IN THEIR OWN ELEMENT made a hollow, twanging noise. With the flock,too, were the swifts, who sleep and nest in chim-neys and whose winter home no man has yet dis-covered. As the turquoise of the curved skydeepened into sapphire, a shadowy figure cametoward the circling, flashing throng of swifts andswallows. The new-comers great bare wingsseemed made of sections of brown parchmentjointed together, unlike those of any bird. Nordid any bird ever wear soft brown fur frosted withsilver, nor have wide flappy ears and a hobgoblinface. Miles above the ground, this earth-bornmammal was beating the birds in their own ele-ment. None of the swallows showed any alarmas the stranger overtook them, for they recognizedhim as the hoary bat, the largest of North Ameri-can bats, who migrates with the swallows and,like them, feeds only on insects. As the sun sanklower, the great company of the bird folk swoopeddown toward the earth, for
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