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1860. 12. Kill 2 rabbits and 1 Possoin that Watch 

 treed. Shot 1 P chick on corn shock, the first this fall. 



1861. 9. Finished stripping cane, and top'd some. 

 1861. 27. Gathered a good mess of hickoiy nuts. 



1861. 29. Shot a mink near the cut off. 



1862. 13. Went to C. Bottom and got a great heap 

 of Butternuts. 



1863. 13. Walter and I gathered a sack of black 

 walnuts and piled up some butternuts. 



1887. 1. Fished some above the Gill Riffle. I caught 

 2 three pound catfish and some small ones. 



1887. 4. Split some poles and paint some on sugar 

 haw branch under blue grosbeak and Prothonotary 

 warbler. 



1887. 16. Portray a kildeer plover that Foster H. 

 shot and brought down for me. 



1907. Pick up a basketful of black walnuts by my 

 branch. 



19. From Caroline A. Soule's novel, The Pet of the 

 Settlement. 



''The prairies were brilliant ^^dth the nodding crowns 

 and the golden rod and the waving spires of the Avild 

 sun -flower; the low thickets that hedge them were royal 

 with glossy-leaved hazle bushes and crimson-plumed 

 sumachs — masses of purple asters clustering lovingly 

 about their roots ; the forests were gorgeous with scarlet 

 maples, yellow hickories, dark green oaks and silvery- 

 leaved cottonwoods, while do\m on the river-bottoms 

 and all along the banks of the little creeks, the brown 

 vines of the wild grape were drooping heavily with their 

 thousand clusters of dead-ripe fnut . . . long ere they 



