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.&.&&.&.&& BY BUILDING CLAY FIGURES AND SEEING &.&&&.&.&.
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&.&.&.&..& WOLVERINE†† RATLIKE, BLOOD-SEEPING, † &&.&&&&...
&&&&&&&&.& ~~~~~~~~~~~ FREAKY, PERHAPS TOO COOL, &.&&...&..
&.......&& ........... TOO SOVEREIGN. †††††††††† &&&.&..&&.
&&......&. RACCOON†††† VIRUS BEARER. RABIES. ††† ...&&&.&.&
..&.....&& ~~~~~~~~~~~ HANDED. PERHAPS TOO CUTE. ...&..&&&&
&.&&....&. RAT†††††††† CRITTER, BENEATH-DWELLER, &..&&.&...
&&&.&...&& ~~~~~~~~~~~ THE MOST RATLIKE BY ††††† .&.&.&&&..
&..&&&..&. ........... VIRTUE OF BEING ONE. †††† .&&&&&..&.
&&.&..&.&& ........... WHATEVER THAT IS. ††††††† .&....&.&&
..&&&.&&&. ARMADILLO†† LITTLE ARMORED ONE. ††††† .&&...&&&.
..&..&&..& ~~~~~~~~~~~ DOESN'T LOOK DANGEROUS, † &&.&..&..&
&.&&.&.&.& ........... A BIT PATHETIC MAYBE. ††† &.&&&.&&.&
.&&.&&&&&& CAT†††††††† TOO NOBLE. †††††††††††††† &&&..&&.&&
&&.&&..... FOX†††††††† TOO PLAYFUL. †††††††††††† ...&.&.&&.
&.&&.&.... WOLF††††††† THE WOLF IS NOT A ††††††† ...&&&&&.&
.&&.&&&... ~~~~~~~~~~~ ††††††††††† REAL CREATURE &..&....&&
&&.&&..&.. MAGPIE††††† IF IT'S BROKEN-WINGED.... &&.&&...&.
&.&&.&.&&. ~~~~~~~~~~~ GOOD TEMPERAMENT. BUT, †† ..&&.&..&&
.&&.&&&&.& ........... TOO FREE. ††††††††††††††† ..&.&&&.&.
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