People would tell the barber not to talk with the kid, that he was a strange bird.

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Maybe, though, it is just a strange little wet bird.

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While doing so he noticed strange interactions between two males, Hugin, a subordinate bird, and Munin, a dominant one.

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If a bird has been practising in his dreams, it might seem strange that he has deteriorated in the morning.

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