Their notion is that if you kind of bird-dog the kid very closely, that you can toilet-train them very early and everything will be neat and wonderful.

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Bart's, and Suzi, a bird-dog trainer, found their Walden: a cozy three-room cabin on the banks of Cape Breton's Margaree River, some of the finest Atlantic salmon water in North America.

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The missionary leaflets by the collection box were smeared and dog-eared, and Bartholomew noticed now that there was bird lime on curtains that were there in place of a door to the vestry.

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