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saucepan and cheesecloth.
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Their researches led them
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through fresh-marsh, through pine-woods,
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over stile and under trestle--
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but never a bee-tree they discovered,
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only swampy impasses or the hives of some part-time apiarist.
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He's narrating in great detail what happened
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while he was in the womb.
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Where does this knowledge come from?
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It's as if his knowledge of his own conception, his own birth,
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his own babyhood, is a natural knowledge.
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But we must know that it had to come from someone,