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 CHAPTER IX 



THE DANCE IN THE ALDER SWAMP 



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Alder swale: a low wet clump of alder or patch of swampy 

 grass and bushes. 



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Bed maples: "red" because just coming into "red" or, bet- 

 ter, garnet bloom. Maples are among the first of our trees to 

 blossom and the first of all to scatter their ripened seeds on the 

 summer air. 



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Twisting flight: a kind of zig-zag, rapid and whirling. A 

 rifle's barrel is "rifled," that is, bored with spiral grooves which 

 give a rotary motion to the speeding bullet. 



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Woodcock: this interesting and valuable bird is doomed 

 to become extinct, it seems. We must do all we can to save it. 



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Tussock or hassock: a dense bunch of sedge or rushes. 



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Indian teepees: or tents of the Indians. 



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 Barbecue: a whole roast ox. 



CHAPTER X 



CHICKAREE THE SCOLD 



Chickaree: the common "red-squirrel," so called from its 

 cry. He is said to destroy the eggs and young of birds, 

 though I have never seen him do it, and I have a dozen nests 

 of Chickaree here about the house one in the cellar, one in 

 the ice house, the others in the trees. 



