142 WINTER 



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Lupton's Pond: A little pond along Cohansey Creek near Bridge- 

 ton, N. J. 

 Persimmon trees: found from New Haven, Conn., to Florida. 



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Bob Cratchit's goose : There never was such a goose, as you all 

 know who have read Dickens's " Christmas Carol," 



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liquid amber : The balsamic juice of the sweet gum tree, some- 

 times called " bilsted " (Liquidambar styraciflucf), a large, beautiful 

 swamp tree found from Connecticut to Florida and west to Texas, 



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half-human tracks : Because the coon is a relative of the bears and 

 has a long hind foot that leaves a track much like that of a small 

 baby. 



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tupelo : See note on gum swamp, page 141. 

 sour gums : same as tupelo. 



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chicken or frost grapes: Vitis cordifolia: the smallest, sourest, best 

 (boy standards) of all our wild grapes. They ripen after the frost 

 and feed the boys and birds when all other such fruits have gone 

 from the woods. 



Smooth winterberry : is really another ilex, Ilex Icevigata, a larger 

 bush than Ilex verticillata, the black alder or winterberry. 



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Fox sparrows : See the frontispiece. The largest, most beautiful 

 of our sparrows. Nests in the Far North. A migrant to New Eng- 

 land and the Southern States. 



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The crows were winging over toward their great roost : Don't fail this 

 winter to spend, if not Christmas Day, then one of your Christmas 

 vacation days, in the woods, from morning until the crows go over 

 to their roost. You will never forget that day. 



