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European plant, introduced into this country 

 and escaped from gardens into moist places. It 

 literally mats the surface of the ground, and in 

 spots the shelving banks, with a dense carpet of 

 green from the midst of which the flowers put 

 forth in beauteous contrast. Never before have 

 I seen it so abundant as along this woodland 

 stream, to which it probably found its way from 

 a cemetery a mile or so above, the seeds each 

 year being washed farther and farther down in 

 time of overflow. 



The weasel which killed the chicken on yes- 

 terday soon paid the penalty for the deed. J. 

 M. informed me this morn that in less than two 

 hours it returned and was nabbed by one of the 

 steel traps. "An eye for an eye" "your life 

 for the one you have despoiled ' ' says the farm- 

 er unto all such varmints. Never again will it 

 attack a chicken in the presence of man at noon- 

 day. Had it waited till nightfall it would prob- 

 ably have gotten safely away. Mrs. M. was so 

 wrought up over the daylight attack that, when 

 told that it had been caught, she exclaimed: 

 "Burn him alive in the brush pile." 



Those curious burrowing insects, the mole 

 crickets, are much more common than is usually 

 supposed. Hidden as they are beneath the sur- 

 face along the margins of bogs, streams an'd 

 lakes, they are seldom seen except by some one 

 who is digging in such places. Yesterday while 



