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They must be something rare . Any you fellows ever see a bird like that hereabouts ? '' No one ever had . `` Well , '' said the teamster , `` failing to get this log lets me off till noon , and I 'm going to town . I go right past her place . I 've a big notion to stop and tell her . If she drives straight back in the swamp on the west road , and turns east at this big sycamore , she ca n't miss finding the tree , even if Freckles ai n't here to show her .