The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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This bird resembles a crane, and when it feels itself ill it fills  
its craw with water, and with its beak makes an injection of it.  
THE STAG.  
These creatures when they feel themselves bitten by the spider  
called father-long-legs, eat crabs and free themselves of the venom.  
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THE LIZARD.  
This, when fighting with serpents eats the sow-thistle and is free.  
THE SWALLOW.  
This [bird] gives sight to its blind young ones, with the juice of  
the celandine.  
THE WEASEL.  
This, when chasing rats first eats of rue.  
THE WILD BOAR.  
This beast cures its sickness by eating of ivy.  
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