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orchard, farm and garden and grove, we should 

 indeed be fortunate. Yet even though a man does 

 not possess the literary faculty and the powers of 

 trained observation necessary for such a task, he 

 can do his part toward adding to our information 

 by keeping careful notes of all the important facts 

 which he comes across. Such note-books would 

 show the changed habits of game with the changed 

 seasons, their abundance at different times and 

 different places, the melancholy data of their dis- 

 appearance, the pleasanter facts as to their change 

 of habits which enable them to continue to exist 

 in the land, and, in short, all their traits. A real 

 and lasting service would thereby be rendered, 

 not only to naturalists, but to all who care for 

 nature. 



