I heard tell that he keeps birds in cages, and feeds them and looks after them, and won't let no one go shooting at them in your land.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Snow Goose (1954) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:04:23 in the radio play.
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- Well, these twigs will do, I think.
- I'll have to be a bit stronger than that.
- After all, she's a big bird, isn't she?
- Aye.
- It were all I could do to pick her up and carry her to you.
- Why don't you bring her in to me, I wonder?
- Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I'm fond of birds. I like looking after them.
- Where did she come from, did you say?
- From Canada. That's a land far, far across the seas. Beautiful daughter of England.
- She's quite a young bird. No more than a year old, I'd say.
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