Ransier: Hunting the Hart's Tongue 



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Fig. 7. Woodville: At the left, one of the frequent outcropping 



ledges. 



shade nearby. Still nearer the brow of the hill, over- 

 looking the place, in a semi-wild apple orchard, were 

 scattering but fair-sized hart's tongues, that is, better 

 than the most of those I met with in the vicinity. On 

 the main road, leading back to Owen Sound, just outside 

 of Woodville, there is a little school house, right in the 

 edge of the woods, the trees almost touching the build- 

 ing. Very large rocks stand up two to five feet above 

 the ground; the trees are large, not crowded and but 

 little grows in their shade. Here the school children 

 appeared to have resorted to "play house" as witnessed 

 the bits of pottery, premises outlined with pebbh s, 

 etc., and here too hart's tongues were quite well dis- 

 tributed. It would have been a quiet nook had not a 

 blue jay had an errand there. He looked beautiful, and 

 acted cheerful, but his voice was shocking. 



Quite near this place, while sitting in the shade read- 

 ing a paper, I became conscious of something moving 

 near me, and glancing up I saw as beautiful a black 

 squirrel as I ever hope to see, not over 25 feet away, on 



