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can not tell where we are at, for, one 

 of the monkeys stole his case of instru- 

 ments, and gave them to the ostrich, 

 who swallowed them, without anyone 

 seeing him but me. I know enour;h 

 to keep still though, for that same os- 

 trich saw me eat the Barred Owl. 



Shebeth 12. 



The chronometer and an alarm 

 clock were missing. It went the same 

 way as the instruments. But when 

 the alarm went off, it gave the gag 

 away. The Ostrich looked foolish 

 when the Veterinary Surgeon gave him 

 an emetic and made him disgorge. 



Adai I . 

 Lately the Professor has been send- 

 ing out Doves and Ravens to report 

 the height of the water. The Dove 

 brought back a sprig of olive — a little 

 one too, to make all that fuss about. 

 I am just aching for a good fly, and if 

 I had been sent I would of brought 

 back a whole limb of the William 

 Henry. The ostrich informed on me 

 about the Barred Owl, and I am so 

 closely watched I cannot get any fresh 

 meat. 



Abile 27. 



At last we are let out. The first 

 thing I did was to make a raid on a 

 Ruffed Grouse, and my! wasn't it good 

 — well now. There is an awful stench 

 though — worse than when the two 

 skunksgot quarreling over the bone on 

 the Ark last month. The Professor 

 is using a patent disinfector, and I 

 guess there is no danger of disease 

 Everybody is tickled to death at get- 

 ting out, and are quite foolish over it 

 — and all hungry too. A Western 

 Horned Owl shook his feathers, and 

 remarked to me of the mountain wc 

 were on: "Is that Ar a rat.'" 



Tomorrow I am going back to my 

 old grounds. I suppose things will 

 look peculiar, but the Ducks all say it 

 is just perfect. There is no account- 

 ing for tastes. 



P. A. T.WERNIER, 



Toronto, Ont. 



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Collecting About Chicago. 



My companion and myself left the 

 house at 6 o'clock a. m. and took the 

 electric cars for the city, arriving there 

 half an hour later, says Prof. F. C. 

 rSaker in "Sports Afield." W"e then 

 walked four blocks to the depot of the 

 Illinois Central, where we took a train, 

 after waiting half an hour, for 104th 

 street, situated near Calumet Lake, 

 our destination; where we arrived at 

 8 o'clock. We were now about fifteen 

 miles from our starting point. These 

 traveling facts are given to show how 

 how far the collector has to go in this 

 region before finding a good collecting 

 locality. 



After leaving the train we crossed a 

 field and soon reached a little ridge 

 Overlooking Lake Calumet. Upon 

 this ridge, under the roots of a rotten 

 tree, we found several dozen Conulus 

 fiilvus, \'itrca arborca, V. indcntata 

 and Pupa contracta : strange to relate, 

 however, not a shell could be found 



