

CHAPTER VII 



A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO DO THIS FALL 

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OU ought to go out into the fields 

 and woods as many as six times this 

 fall, even though you have to take a long 

 street-car ride to get out of the city. Let me 

 give you just six bits of sound advice about 

 going afield : 



First, go often to the same place, so that 5 V 

 you can travel over and over the same ground *' 

 and become very familiar with it. The first 

 trip you will not see much but woods and 

 fields. But after that, each succeeding walk 

 will show you particular things this dead tree 

 with the flicker's hole, that old rail-pile with its 

 rabbit-hole until, by and by, you will know every 

 turn and dip, every pile of stones, every hole and 



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