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Hi, thank you for
coming tonight.

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This is a story
about Baba Yaga--

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the fabulous Russian witch.

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"Baba Yaga had a
daughter, a pelican child.

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This did not please
her particularly.

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The pelican child was
stunningly strange and beautiful

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as well as being
very good, which

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pleased Baba Yaga even less.

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It was difficult to live as a
pelican in the deep dark woods,

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but the pelican
child never seemed

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to think she belonged
to any place other

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than here with her bony
ill-tempered baba and the cat

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and the dog.

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They all lived in a little
hut on chicken legs,

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and they were not uncomfortable.

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Baba Yaga did not
care for visitors,

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so when anyone approached,
the chicken legs

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would move in a circle, turning
the house so that the visitor

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could not find the door.

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This too was
acceptable to them all.

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When Baba Yaga went away,
which she did frequently

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though she always,
always returned,

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she would warn the dog and cat
and her beautiful pelican child

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against allowing
strangers into the house.

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Even if they do not appear as
strangers, don't let them in,

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Baba Yaga said.

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And she would go off on her
strange errands in her iron

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mortar, which she would
row through the heavens

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with a pestle.

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Often, she would return
with little fishes,

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which the pelican and the cat
relished and the dog did not.

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The dog had his
own cache of food,

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which he consumed judiciously--
never too much and never

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too fast.

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Though he did not hoard it.

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He was generous and
noble to a fault,

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really, though he was shabby
and ferocious-looking.

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One afternoon, when
Baba Yaga was away,

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a tall, somewhat
formally-attired man

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approached the house.

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The chicken legs immediately
went into rotation

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so that the door
could not be found.

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Really, the legs looked as
if they weren't even awake,

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but, in fact, they never slept.

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I have heard there is
a beautiful bird here,

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the man shouted out, and
I would like to draw her.

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He waved a sketchbook
in the air.

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I'll make her
immortal, he called.

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The Pelican child and
the dog and the cat

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remained sitting quietly
in a circle on the floor

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where they had been
playing dominoes.

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The man remained outside until
darkness fell, occasionally

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calling out to them that he
was an artist and very highly

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regarded.

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Then he went away.

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The cat turned on the lamp,
and they waited for Baba Yaga

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to return.

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There were two
lamps in the hut--

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one that illuminated only
what they knew already,

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and another one
which Baba Yaga kept

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locked in a closet
that illuminated

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what they did not know.

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Baba Yaga returned and said,
I smell something outside.

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It smells like cruel death.

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Who has been here?

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And they described the
man and what he had said.

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If he returns, under no
circumstances let him in,

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Baba Yaga said.

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The next day, she went off once
again in her mortar and pestle.

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On foggy days, one could see the
faintest trail of her passage

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through the sky, so she brought
her broom along to sweep away

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any trace of herself.

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Baba Yaga was
usually very careful,

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though sometimes she was not.

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The Pelican child and
the dog and the cat

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sat in a circle on the floor
with their coloring books.

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The Pelican child's
favorite color was blue,

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the cat's black, and the dog
pretty much preferred them

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all he said.

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They felt a little house
moving, and their crayons

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slid across the floor.

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Once again, the man had
appeared and the chicken legs

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had prevented him
from finding the door.

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He shouted up to them as
before, proclaiming his devotion

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to the pelican child's
strangeness and beauty

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and promising to
make her immortal.

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My name is synonymous
with beautiful birds

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he said waving his
portfolio at the windows.

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What is synonymous,
the dog whispered.

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He had no idea what it
meant, and he never would.

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Just then, the entire
forest commenced

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to rattle for Baba
Yaga had returned

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and was rushing toward the
distinguished gentleman

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on her bony legs ready to thrash
him with her pestle Wait, wait,

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he cried.

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I only want to create
your daughter's portrait.

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You cannot keep such a splendid
creature locked up here.

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As a mother, you should
want her to be appreciated.

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Others should be allowed
to marvel at her.

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Come, look at the drawings I
have made of her avian brothers

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and sisters.

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And Baba Yaga,
allowing curiosity

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to get the better of her
and also because she did

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feel somewhat guilty raising
her beautiful daughter

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in the dark woods, agreed
to look at the drawings.

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They were beautiful.

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Herons and ibis and egrets and
roseate spoonbills and storks

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feeding or flying or resting
in their nests with their young

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or gliding above
water that sparkled.

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So great was the
gentleman's skill--

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sunlight pouring through
their perfect wings.

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Let us return to your home and
lay these pictures on the floor

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inside so you can study them
and they won't be blown apart

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by the wind he said.

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Indeed, a violent
wind had come up as

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though it were trying to
tell Baba Yaga something,

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but she ignored it.

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So the chicken legs
obediently swung

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the hut around and Baba Yaga
and the gentleman whose name

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was John James Audubon enter.

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Well, put out some tea and
biscuits for our guests,

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Baba Yaga snapped at the cat.

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But the cat said we
have no tea or biscuits.

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The dog growled, but Baba
Yaga said to Audubon, oh, pay

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no attention to him.

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This deeply hurt
the dog's feelings.

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It's quite dim in
here, Audubon remarked.

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Would you have another
lamp so that we

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can see the drawings better?

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I so want you to approve of them
so you will allow me to draw

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your beautiful daughter.

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I do have another lamp,
Baba Yaga said gladly.

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And please,
grandmother, he said,

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could you be so kind as to
lock the dog and cat away?

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The dog does frighten me a
bit, and I'm allergic to cats.

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Baba Yaga put the dog
and the cat in the closet

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and followed them in
looking for the other lamp.

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Oh, wouldn't you
know, she muttered.

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I put it on the highest most
difficult to reach shelf.

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Audubon slammed the
door shut and bolted it.

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Baba Yaga and the
dog and the cat

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were so stunned
that, for a moment,

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they were completely speechless.

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Then they heard their beautiful
pelican child say, oh, please,

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sir, do not take me from
this bright world, and then

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a sharp crack as though
from a pistol, then

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terrible sounds of pain and
surprise, and then nothing.

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The dog began to howl
and the cat to hiss.

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Baba Yaga beat on the door with
her bony hands and feet, which

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were sharp as a horse's
hooves, but the door

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was old and strong, the
wood practically petrified,

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and they could not
break through it.

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But the dog flung
himself against the door

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again and again and
worried a sliver

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loose with his teeth and
claws and then another sliver.

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He did not know how long
he tore at the door he

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had no conception of time.

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It seemed only yesterday
he was a puppy hanging on

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to Baba Yaga's sock as
she limped across the room

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or pouncing at moths or grinning
with joy when he was allowed

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before he got too
big to accompany

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Baba Yaga on her
flights across the sky.

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It seemed only yesterday that
his fur was soft and black,

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his paws so pink and
tender, his teeth so white.

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Or it seemed as though
it could be tomorrow.

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Finally, he had made
a hole in the door

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just large enough for
him to crawl through.

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What met his eyes was
a scene so horrific

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he could not understand it.

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He began to tremble and
howl the beautiful pelican

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child was pierced
through with cruel rods

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and was arranged in
a position of life,

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her great wings extended,
her elegant neck arched.

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But her life had
been taken away,

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and her eyes were
fathomless and dark.

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A specimen, the cat
screamed behind him.

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He has made of our
sister a specimen.

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And then he felt the tears
of Baba Yaga striking him

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like hail.

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He left.

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Outside, he ran and
ran through the forest.

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He could see the man running to
clutching his wretched papers

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and pens.

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Often, the dogs stumbled.

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And twice he fell for his hips
had been bad for some time.

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And his poor old heart
now pounded with sorrow.

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At last, he gave up the
pursuit, for the evil one

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had far out distanced him.

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After he rested and
caught his breath,

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he smelled the dreadful
scent of cruel death.

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Audubon's abandoned
campsite was nearby,

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and a fire of green
branches still smoldered.

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Many were the trees
that had been cut down.

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And on their stumps
were colorful

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woodland birds, thrushes
and larks, and woodpeckers,

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and tiny iridescent and
colorfully patterned

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ones whose names the
dog did not know.

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Long nails thrust through their
small bodies kept them erect,

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and thread and wire held their
heads up and kept their wings

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aloft.

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Even more horrifying
was the sight

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of birds dismembered-- their
pinions and claws severed

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for study.

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Whimpering, the dog fled.

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And after he had gone a short
distance or long distance,

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after a long time or a short
time, he came to the little hut

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on chicken legs.

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The legs were weeping.

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And Baba Yaga and
the cat were weeping.

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Baba Yaga had folded her
daughter in her arms,

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and her tears felt without
ceasing on the pelican child's

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brown breast.

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In the morning, the cat
said, we must do something.

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I will go out again and find
him and tear him to pieces,

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the dogs said wearily.

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I don't give a rat's ass
about Audubon, the cat said.

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We must bring our beautiful
pelican sister back.

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Perhaps we should call for
Prince Ivan, the dog suggested.

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Useless, Baba Yaga said.

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He has his princess
in his castle.

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He never calls.

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He never writes.

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He's of no use to us.

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We will put the
beautiful pelican child

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in the oven the cat announced.

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I couldn't bear
to put my daughter

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in the cold, cold
oven, Baba Yaga said.

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Who said anything about
cold, the cat said.

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We will preheat it to,
oh, say, 250 degrees,

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and we will put her in
for only half an hour.

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Half an hour, the dog said.

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That stove hasn't been used
in years, Baba Yaga said.

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But they did what
the cat suggested,

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for what else could they do?

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Carefully, they lay
the Pelican child

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in the oven, which was no longer
cold, but not too warm either.

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Oh, her beautiful
face, Baba Yaga cried.

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Her beautiful bill,
take care with her bill.

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Then they waited.

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Has it been a half an
hour yet, the dog asked.

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Not yet, the cat said.

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At last, the cat announced that
it had been a half an hour.

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And Baba Yaga opened the oven.

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And the Pelican child, as
beautiful as she had ever been,

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tumbled out and tottered
into their happy arms alive.

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After this, Baba
Yaga continued to fly

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through the skies in her mortar,
navigating with her pestle.

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But instead of a
broom, she carried

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the lamp that illuminated
the things people did not

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know or were reluctant
or refused to understand.

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And she would lower
the lamp over a person

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and they would see how
extraordinary were the birds

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and beasts of the world
and that they should

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be valued for their bright and
beautiful and mysterious selves

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and not willfully
harmed, for they were

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more precious than castles
or the golden rocks

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dug out from the earth.

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But she could reach only a few
people each day with the land.

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Once, seven
experienced it's light.

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But usually it was far less.

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It would take thousands of
years, tens of thousands

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of years perhaps to reach all
human beings with the light.

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Baba Yaga came home
one evening so tired,

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and she gathered her little
family around her-- the pelican

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child and the dog and the
cat-- and said, my dear ones,

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I still have magic
and power unrealised.

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Do you wish to
become human beings,

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for some think you are
under a hellish spell.

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Do you want to become human?

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The cat and the dog spoke.

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The Pelican child had not spoken
since the day of her return.

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No, the dog and the cat said."

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Thanks.

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