WOODLAND PATHS 



people fail in this method. It takes a 

 peculiar motion to the bar and a good eye 

 in choosing the spot where the worms are. 

 And then, few people know the tune. 



Nightfall and the robin's method are 

 best. Wait till the full darkness of a moist 

 night. Hang a lantern about your neck 

 and get down on your marrow bones by 

 a grassy roadside. Worms do not see, 

 and are not sensitive to light. You have 

 but to crawl quietly forward and pick 

 them up with a quick snatch, for the worm 

 can feel, and he gets back into his burrow 

 with an agility which is surprising. 



On the right kind of a May night I have 

 seen the roadside of a Massachusetts vil- 

 lage the scene of more than one such spec- 

 tacle. A stranger from the big world, 

 seeing a very fat man crawling by the road- 

 side with a lantern hung about his neck, 



making frantic dabs here and there, and 

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