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 \nO gracious me!Omy!This broken Eggshell was my home!  \nI see it with my eye!However did I get inside?  \nOr how did I get out?  \nAnd must my life be evermore,an atmosphere of doubt?  \nCan no one tell?Can no one solve,  \nThis mystery of Eggs?  \nOr why we chirp &flap our wings,-or why we've all 2 legs?And since we cannot understand,一  \nMay it not seem to me,That we are merely born by chance,  \nEgg-nostics for to be?  \nThe Runcible Bird  \nThe Stripy Bird","cbCaiivs3pJ1Tx5N","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiivs3pJ1Tx5N","pdf",824319,32,"English","# Introduction\n## Parrot House and early illustrations\n## Vision decline and later work\n## Pigeons, roses, and personal letters\n## Nonsense bird poems","[{\"question\":\"What early work did Edward Lear do that connected him to birds?\",\"answer\":\"At eighteen, Lear began working in the Parrot House at London Zoo, where he produced painstaking drawings for a book of parrots.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Lear’s eyesight affect his career, according to the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"His sight began to fail, and he lamented that soon he would not be able to see birds well enough to do his work; afterward he became a landscape painter.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the introduction say about Lear’s birds in his later life?\",\"answer\":\"In a letter to a friend, Lear describes his ten pigeons as amusing and curious, noting their punctual egg-related routines and the servant’s belief about tiny watches under their wings.\"}]","For Lovers of BIRDS - Introduction | PDF",1789965312,49]