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noticed which must be jotted down in your list. 

 Put down notes concerning all the common things 

 — Sparrows, Rooks, Gulls, Mice, Rats, Flies, Ear- 

 wigs, Sand Hoppers, Crabs, Winkles, Starfish, 

 Jellyfish, Cockles, Mussels, Barnacles, Whelks, 

 and so on. Do not omit, too, the common plants, 

 for these will largely help to swell your list to 

 unexpected numbers, and accord a place to the 

 Groundsel, Daisy, Dandelion, Shepherd's Purse, 

 Poppy, Scabious, Rest Harrow, Knot Grass, Sun 

 Spurge, and numbers of other common plants 

 that need not be detailed. 



At the conclusion of your holiday, and when 

 your lists are as complete as it has been possible 

 to make them in the limited time at disposal, get 

 out a sort of analysis and generally sum up the 

 situation, as it were. Then you should be able, 

 if you have done your work right, to tell what 

 are the commonest animals and plants of the 

 district, where they mostly occurred, and have 

 jotted down in your notebook various other 

 details of lasting interest. 



When you return home, enter your hurriedly 

 written notes in a good strong memorandum 

 book or Nature Diary, and then you will have 

 preserved the records which caused you so much 

 pleasure and profit in making. 



Some day you may be asked by another Nature 

 lover if you have ever visited a certain seaside 



