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Communication is the process of sending and receiving messages.
Twain is referring to an 'ice storm' when he writes that 'one kind of new England weather makes up for all the other kinds.'
He refers to it in this piece "<span>If we hadn't our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all its bullying vagaries--the ice-storm: when a leafless tree is clothed with .....'
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Hey You!
Animals that speak is usally classified as a "Animal Fantasy" genre or even "Fairytale".