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like an agitated bullet, his motor doing its 

 very prettiest with the muffler off and both 

 propellers roaring. Orville Wright could 

 not have caught him. It was but a brief 

 glimpse that I got, but I took him for one 

 of the skippers, perhaps the silver-spotted, 

 which is common here, though I have 

 never seen one so early before. He was 

 burly, thick-necked, short-winged, which 

 is characteristic of the hesperids. 



I would be glad to know what these 

 early butterflies find to eat. Certain flow- 

 ers are now in bloom, but you never find 

 a mourning cloak or a hunter, a question 

 mark or a painted lady fluttering about 

 them. The bees are in the willow blooms 

 and the alder catkins after pollen. The 

 maples are in bloom. You can find hepat- 

 icas and violets, chickweed, crocus, snow- 

 drop, and, I dare say, dandelions in blos- 

 som, and almost every day some new shrub 

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