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The redbird continued these peculiar action8 for several minutes after which it flew and ca~~ to rest on the roof of the old. colonial mansion directly

above the room formerly occupied by the young maater. Tines was convinced now that the end had conm for Sam Kendricks and that his approeching death had been foretold by the whippoorwill and that each evening as the bird

approached nearer the house and uttered his night cry just so was the life of young Saiti Kendricks slowly nearing its close and the actions of the red~~

bird the following day was revealing evidence to Tines that the end had come to his young master which indeed it had as proven by a xz~~sage the family received late in the morning of this same day,