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The Sparrow.

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below on the ground and gazed at the dead bird.

" Poor sparrow ! ' said the chaffinch. " I am sorry for him."

" He couldn't expect a better fate," said the tomtit. " He was ambitious ; and that is what one has no right to be when one is only a sparrow."