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an inch), round or pear-shaped, and the birds get 

 after them with a vengeance. 



Back in the shrubbery, close by the border of the 

 Pond, you will find a beautiful American beech, which 

 you distinguish by its smooth light gray bark and 

 chestnut-like leaves. 



Close by the culvert that lets a tumbling stream 

 into Wild Fowl Pond, you will find sassafras with its 

 three different kinds of leaves ; egg-shaped, mitten- 

 shaped, double mitten-shaped, and a tall European 

 or tree alder, which you will have no difficulty in find- 

 ing if you look for its black last year's "cones" which 

 are sure to be hanging on its branches. Its leaf, too, 

 is decisive with a curved notch at the top. 



This brings us to Wild Fowl Pond on the one side 

 and the drive crossing back of Battle Pass on the 

 other. 



