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5. V.
(Page 29.)
An incident of this kind is related, as having actually occurred. One of
those melodious and powerful songsters, who sometimes pour out their wild
notes in the silence of the night, was heard to warble his sweet song, from the
top of a tall tree, over the grave of a distinguished warrior, around which a
mourning train of savage men stood in silence, at the midnight hour. A coincidence
so happy could hardly fail to attract the attention of a superstitious
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cannot now remember the occasion, or the authority from which I received it.
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