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“Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 74e0b08030463d01515e7347f93f803ec833102ab37419349eab3699887e5518
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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