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The 1 'uu fig Urn lih (j[()oj.st . 



A. VA CA TIOJ\r TRIP, 



OR, TWO YOUNG NATUKAIJSTS IN NEW 

 HAMPSHIRr:. 



BY HAKRY KOI, \N1». 



CHAP. V I. 



The next morning the boys \ve;e up 

 by sunrise, and after a hearty breakfast 

 of corn cakes, corn-beef and coffee, 

 they began to talk oYcr their plans for 

 the day. Edward wanted to go off 

 trout fishing at once, as he had been 

 down to the brook the night before, and 

 expressed the opinion to George that it 

 was a splendid i)lace for trout. But 

 George said they must drive over to 



J , the nearest town, about three 



miles di.stant, to get some provisions, as 

 they had only a little corn meal and 

 a few rolls, the grain for the horse was 

 almost all gone, and there were a few 

 other things to get. They decided to 

 drive over to the village in the forenoon, 

 and then go fishing after they got back. 

 They had a ]:)!easant drive, and after 

 procuring the articles desired, drove 

 home again. When they arrived it was 

 almost one o'clock, and they iiiiniedi- 

 ately |)roceeded to ];repare their dinnc'. 

 After they had cooked and eaten it they 

 went out to dig some wo''nis for their 

 fishing excursion.- While they we^e 

 thus engaged they heard a Field Plover 

 whistle in a pasture a little ways from 

 their house. As soon as (icorge heai'd 

 it he handed the hoe to Kdward, and 

 said, "Here, you finish digging the 

 worms, I am going over there to see if 

 I can't find its nest, and then I will be 

 back again." 



''Su])pose vou don't get back in 

 time?" inquired Kdward. 



•'Well then you go on, and I'll ove.- 

 take vou," replied (rcorge, and climb- 

 ing over the garden wall he was soon 

 lost to view among the small pines and 

 high -bush blueberries. 



Edward finished digging t!ic worms. 

 and taking his tish]")o'e st ii te 1 d t,\,i tin- 



brook. The fishing up ne i'- the d uii was 

 not very good so that nearly e/eryone 

 went down the bank for a little ways 

 before they commenced fishing, (jeorge 

 had told him of this liefore hand so he 

 was profiting by his advice. We will 

 leave Pklward for the present and retuin 

 to George, who had reached the pasture 

 from which the whistle had came, and 

 was now lying under a tree listening ii.- 

 tently for a repetition of the sound. 

 After waiting some time and hearing 

 nothing he became impatient, and start- 

 ed across the field with very little hope 

 of finding the bird. He had travelled 

 accross the field once, and was return- 

 ing, when suddenly a bird fluttered 

 along the ground ahead of him as if 

 wounded, (ieorge was well acquainted 

 with the habits of birds, therefore, in- 

 stead of persuing the bird, he dropped 

 his hat down where he had first .seen the 

 bird, and was now hunting for the nest 

 in a circle around it. After quite a 

 long search he finally discovered the 

 nest containing four beautiful eggs, 

 daking the eggs up carefully he started 

 back as the:e was hardly need of his 

 identitying the bird with which he was 

 so well acquainted, having often shot 

 them in the fill. d"he owner of the 

 nest was standing on a stone wall, oc- 

 casionally uttering its peculiar whistle 

 vvhit:h soon l)rought its mate, .who perch- 

 ed on the top of a tree near the nest. 

 These plover will often alight on trees 

 during the breeding season or when 

 any one approaches their nest, though 

 they do not seem to do so at any other 

 time. Geoige carried the eggs back 

 to the house, and sitting down in his 

 room, wrote off an acc-ount of the nest 

 and eggs m his note book, and then 

 commenced to measure them, [previous 

 to filling out a data blank. He had fo: - 

 gotten all about b.is fishing excursion in 

 his delight at finding a new nest of eggs. 



I'D HE CON'riNUED. 



d"he remains of a mammoth were re-' 

 ent'b' d iscoxered neir ( ienc\';K X. ^'. 



