The Bronzed Grackle 147 



I plowed up a nest of land terrapins and in doing so 

 learned that the terrapin laid eggs. I saved the contents of 

 that nest and have them in my study. If I had only continued 

 collecting, how much valuable material I might now have and 

 how much I might have learned that I do not now know ! It 

 is now more than fifty years since I plowed the last furrow, 

 but I have not forgotten the good old days when I was a farm- 

 er's lad. 



