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Southborough ; and on the next night the lecturer was 

 at Salem, discoursing on "Ants of the Temperate 

 Regions." " Ants of the Tropics " followed on the 

 18th, and this was succeeded by "Pond Life " on the 

 21st, and that in turn by the " Horse's Hoof" on the 

 26th. On one of these occasions the lecture, was pre- 

 ceded by a small luncheon party, concerning which I 

 find the entry " Kitten and grouse." Whether this 

 was some novel experiment in gastronomy or not, I 

 cannot say. Probably it was, as on a previous occasion 

 my father had feasted on "jugged " cat, and thoroughly 

 enjoyed it. 



The 20th of February was occupied with " Spider 

 Life," at Southborough, and the 21st with " Pond and 

 Stream," at Salem. Next came " Ant Life," at North 

 Easton, on the 25th, followed by " The Horse," at 

 Salem, on the next day, " Ant Life " again at Newport 

 on the 27th (at half-an-hour's notice), " The Whale " at 

 Southborough on the 28th, and "Ants of the Temperate 

 Regions " at Andover on the 29th. All this time the 

 weather continued very bad indeed, and some of the 

 experiences of the earlier part of the winter were repeated 

 in an intensified form. Note after note upon the sub- 

 ject occurs in the "log," from which I quote the follow- 

 ing short extracts : 



January 5th. Brilliant sun, and clear blue sky. But the WIND, 

 and the COLD. I said that the thermometer went down. Rather ! 

 I thought 15 below zero tolerably cold, but here is 30 below. Yet 

 the additional or rather the subtractional fifteen degrees seem 

 to make little, if any difference. In Minnesota ^it has been 43 be- 

 low zero, and near Chicago twenty cars full of cattle were snowed in, 



