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they were coming still nearer, as if partly from curi- 

 osity, though nibbling the cones all the while, when 

 my chain fell down and rattled loudly, — for the 

 wind shook the boat, — and they flew off a rod. In 

 Bechstein I read that "it frequents fir and pine 

 woods, but only when there are abundance of the 

 cones." It may be that the abundance of white pine 

 cones last fall had to do with their coming here. The 

 hemlock cones were very abundant too, methinks. 



Journal, xiii, 245, 246. 



