34 THE STORY OF A BIRD LOVER 



during my regular hours in the museum, but all 

 the leisure I could get and all my holidays were 

 spent with my gun (for I had a gun of my own 

 by this time) in collecting such birds as could be 

 obtained in the vicinity of Cambridge, working 

 over practically much the same ground that had 

 been covered by the great naturalist, Nuttall. 



So the term at Harvard wore on, and the first 

 college year of 1869 and 1870 came to a close. 



