158 BEYOND THE PASTURE BARS 



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Pignuts: the common thick-shelled hickory nut. 



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Jays: the common blue jays. 



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Thorn mountain: one of the lesser White Mountains look- 

 ing down upon the town of Jackson, N. H. 



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Birch catkins: the fruit of the yellow birch. 



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Junco: the little slate-colored "snow bird" of winter. It 

 nests in the White Mountains and northward. 



CHAPTER XI 



A LESSON IN NATURAL, HISTORY 



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John W. P. Jenks was a well known professor at Brown 

 University, a friend of Agassiz, a great naturalist and museum- 

 maker. The author lived with him in his rooms in the Na- 

 tural History Museum at Brown University for the first three 

 years of the author's college course. 



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Institute: The South Jersey Institute at Bridgeton, New 

 Jersey, where the author prepared for college and for life 

 too, thanks to the great teacher of the Institute, Dr. H. K. 

 Trask. 



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Linnceus: a great Swedish botanist the father of Botany. 

 Read his life in "Famous Men of Science" by Sarah K. Bol- 

 ton. 



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Agassiz the great Swiss naturalist of Harvard College. See 

 "Famous Men of Science." 



