A YEAR IN THE FIELDS 



a moment and then go away. He lingered 

 about for a day or two and then disappeared. 

 The big hairy usurper passed a night in the 

 cavity ; but on being hustled out of it the 

 next night by me, he also left, but not till 

 he had demolished the entrance to a cavity 

 in a neighboring tree where downy and his 

 mate had reared their brood that summer, 

 and where I had hoped the female would 

 pass the winter. 



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