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XIX. 



SEPTEMBER 1st. 



Black Bear — its Food — Appetite for Pork — Andecote — Mode of Fighting 

 — Depredations on the Indian Com — Farmer's Revenge. — Wolves. — 

 Everlasting. — Mallow. — Cherries. — Fire- weed. — Sumach. — "Wild 

 Gooseberry. — Canadian Blackberry. — Bugs on Fruit. — Needle Ichneu- 

 mon. — Thistle. — Fields of Grain. — Harvesting Wheat. — Cradling. — 

 Frosts. — Climbing Buck-wheat. — Tints of Foliage. — Pigeons. — Larva 

 of Tiger .Swallow-tail — Of Muff Moth — Of Puss Moths. — Curious 

 Caterpillar with clubbed Hairs — Other Caterpillars — Of Camberwell 

 Beauty — of Twin-eyed Hawk-moth. — Black Sirex. — Fire-fly. — Fulgora. 

 — Black Crickets. — Cicadse. — Singular Forms of Insects. 



Charles. — A woman came running to our house last 

 evening, about twilight, almost dead with fright, saying that 

 a bear had run out of the woods at her, close by our bridge, 

 and pursued her some distance up the hill ; and some few 

 minutes after, a neighbour going down the road to the mill, 

 smelt a bear pretty close to him, ' which was probably the 

 same individual. 



Father. — Several Black Bears ( Ursus AmericanusJ 

 have lately been seen in this neighbourhood : they do not in 

 general attack a man, unless rendered desperate by hunger ; 

 but it is said they will pursue women or children. An 

 instance lately occurred, in which a man, perceiving a bear 

 lying in the road, was rash enough to dismount from his 

 horse, and attack him with the butt-end of his riding- whip ; 

 but, as might have been expected, he met with a formidable , 

 antagonist, and had nearly suffered for his temerity. He, 



