THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Montlily PubLcatlcn Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND 

 TAXIDERMY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



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■KTERED «T THE TOST O^^FICE AT ALBION, N. Y., AS SECOND- t^6S trnr'tK 



Saved by an Eg-g- Collection. 



A TRUE NARRATIVE. 



In the early spring of 1879 while at- 

 tending Sunday-school, in a New Eng- 

 land city, I placed on the library card 

 the numbers of some books that I de- 

 sired to read. 



With the usual carefulness of the 

 average librarian, a book was given me 



that of course differed in number from 

 anything appearing on the card. 



Upon arriving home, and for the first 

 time noticing the error, I was highly 

 indignant at being given that which 

 was considered by me as a ''kid's 

 book," having reached at that period of 

 ray existence the somewhat mature age 

 of fourteen years. 



The title of the despised volume was 

 "Boys at Chequasset" by Mrs. A. D. 

 T. Whitney, and, as I had nothing else 

 to particularly interest me just then, 

 condescended to glance over the first 

 few pages. In a very few minutes I 

 was completely fascinated, little dream- 

 ing that this book, reaching me appar- 

 antly by chance was to influence my 

 future life to an extent never at- 

 tained by any other book. 



From that moment an oologist was 

 born. I forgot everything in a mad in- 

 satiable desire for bird's eggs. I won- 

 dered how it was possible that I had 

 struggled over the by gone years with- 

 out possessing a collection, and I longed 

 with an intense yearning for the days 

 to pass that kept me from the one thing 

 that seemed absolutely necessary for 

 ray very existence. 



At length the time came that I judged 

 would be propitious for my enterprise, 

 and armed with hope and tin oint- 

 ment box .filled with cotton-batten, I 

 sallied forth, firmly resolved to con- 

 quer, or to leave my bones to bleach at 

 the top of some gigantic pine. Fortune 

 invariably smiles at the beginning of 

 every venture, and my first climb was 

 rewarded with an egg that in beauty 

 exceeded anything my youthful eyes 

 had ever gazed upon. 



At that moment I would have indig- 

 nantly rejected an offer to exchange it 

 for the Koh-inoor, had anyone been 

 sufficiently rash to suggest such a tran- 

 saction. 



I packed the egg very carefully in my 

 box, and to this day I am unable to 

 state with any degree of certainity. 



