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macula,
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mound and crawled under leaves and sticks
The infuriated beetle cleared the mound, and crawled under leaves and sticks to sweep off his clinging enemies, and finally seemed to escape them by burying himself in the earth. — from Fresh Fields by John Burroughs
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