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      The Lark Burying Her Father 
    
    
      THE LARK (according to an ancient legend) was created before the
    earth itself, and when her father died, as there was no earth,
    she could find no place of burial for him.  She let him lie
    uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, not knowing what
    else to do, she buried him in her own head.  Hence she obtained
    her crest, which is popularly said to be her father's
    grave-hillock.  
    
    
    	Youth's first duty is reverence to parents.  
    


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