id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
8682	Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)	The Naturalist on the Thames			.txt	text/plain	66105	2582	73	The supply of fish, and the open and strictly private extent of water, then attracted a number of wild duck or water birds of some kind, which the writer was invited to see and identify, as it did not seem probable that they could be the ordinary wild duck, which are vegetable feeders, and would need an artificial supply of grain, which is provided on the Serpentine, but is not given to any of these reservoir ducks. They feed on the decaying leaves of the iris and other water plants, and from the number of divisions on the shell are believed to live for sometimes twenty years.	cache/8682.txt	txt/8682.txt
