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SEPTEMBER 1st. 



Black Bear its Food Appetite for Pork Andecote Mode of Fighting 

 Depredations on the Indian Corn Farmer's Revenge. Wolves. 

 Everlasting. Mallow. Cherries. Fire- weed. Sumach. Wild 

 Gooseberry. Canadian Blackberry. Bugs on Fruit. Needle Ichneu- 

 mon. Thistle. Fields of Grain. Harvesting Wheat Cradling. 

 Frosts. Climbing Buck-wheat. Tints of Foliage. Pigeons. Larva 

 of Tiger Swallow-tail Of Muif Moth Of Puss Moths. Curious 

 Caterpillar with clubbed Hairs Other Caterpillars Of Camberwell 

 Beauty of Twin-eyed Hawk-moth. Black Sirex. Fire-fly. Fulgora. 

 Black Crickets. Cicadae. Singular Forms of Insects. 



CHARLES. A woman came running to our house last 

 evening, about twilight, almost dead with fright, saying that 

 a bear had run out of the woods at her, close by our bridge, 

 and pursued her some distance up the hill ; and some few 

 minutes after, a neighbour going down the road to the mill, 

 smelt a bear pretty close to him, which was probably the 

 same individual. 



FATHER. Several Black Bears ( Ursus Americanus) 

 have lately been seen in this neighbourhood : they do not in 

 general attack a man, unless rendered desperate by hunger ; 

 but it is said they will pursue women or children. An 

 instance lately occurred, in which a man, perceiving a bear 

 lying in the road, was rash enough to dismount from his 

 horse, and attack him with the butt-end of his riding- whip ; 

 but, as might have been expected, he met with a formidable 

 antagonist, and had nearly suffered for his temerity. He, 



