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We spent two days out at the Ferry Bluffs, or Honey Creek flats, 

 where Honey Creek empties into the Wisconsin river, and found a 

 goodly lot of specimens, 300 sheets on one day. We carried ropes and 

 let Tuttrup down over the cliffs to see a Duck Hawk's nest and gather 

 rare ferns, if any. We suggested that he might explore the cliff dwell- 

 ing and see if he could find his Egyptian ancestor. King Tut. While 

 our trip was not for birds, we saw many in this neighborhood and dis- 

 covered a wild pigeon net. Mr. A. G. Baldwin, of Prairie du Sac, had 

 this net, which had been used for eighty years up to 1882, for trapping 

 the wild passenger pigeons. It is now at the Museum, along with some 

 of the pigeons now extinct. The Wisconsin power dam was a wonder- 

 ful place to fish in the evenings, and under the tutelage of Howard E. 

 ("Lucky") Baldwin, we found the right places. Perhaps it is just as 

 well to be a little reticent at this point, until we are invited to join the 

 Izaak Walton Club. 



Needless to say, our last stop was the largest in point of sheets col- 

 lected, though there came that inevitable day when we, like Alexander 

 the Great, were sighing for new species to conquer. This time came on 

 Saturday, August 12th, so we packed our belongings to bring our trip 

 to a close on Sunday the 13th, for we were expected at the Y Camp, 

 Manitowish, Vilas county, on the 14th. In a little over four hours, 

 we made the 123 miles back to Milwaukee, passing the State Fair 

 grounds as the other motorcycle races were still in progress. Total 

 expense for the two for the entire trip, $306.32. Do you think you 

 could cover 2,100 miles in a car, 500 miles on foot, collect 6,000 speci- 

 mens, live and gain ten pounds in two months, and do it for less ? 



