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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



DRAWING THE CHESTNUT LOGS TO THE SAWMILL. 



and we may hope that our grandchil- 

 dren will gather nuts and tell their 

 grandchildren of their nutting excur- 

 sions, and of the squirrels with which 

 they shared their spoils. 



In Sound Beach, not far from our 

 Arcadia, is a grove as primitive as 

 when Keofferman, or Mianus, or Cos 

 Cob lead his warriors to battle. To 



this grove, commonly known as the 

 Miller woods, have come the lovers, 

 the saunterers, the picnic parties, the 

 botanists and the ornithologists, and to 

 it have come, as to an entomological 

 Mecca, the expert collecting entomolo- 

 gists from The American Museum of 

 Natural History of New York City. 

 The grove is rich in everything that is 



THE STEAM SAWMILL CUTTING UP THE CHESTNUT LOGS. 



