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The Stone in the Nest of the Swallow

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WOULD any of your readers be kind enough to give me some information about the origin of the fable to which Longfellow refers in the following passage of his “Evangeline,” Part I., at the end:—

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HOEK, P. The Stone in the Nest of the Swallow. Nature 21, 494 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021494a0

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