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Whitefoot, the wood mouse : The white-footed or wood mouse or deer 

 mouse. 



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Not so much as a bug or a single beetle's egg has he stored : Why 

 not, seeing that these are his food ? 



a piece of suet for him on a certain lilac bush : Whose bush might 

 it be ? Is there a piece on yours ? 



upon the telegraph-wires were the swallows — the first sign that the 

 getting ready for winter has begun : What kind or kinds of swal- 

 lows ? Have you any earlier sign ? 



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the few creatures that find food and shelter in the snow : Name four 

 of the animals that so find their food and shelter. Are there any 

 others ? Look them up. 



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there will be suffering and death : In your tramps afield this winter 

 look out for signs of suffering. There are many little things that 

 you can do to lessen it — a little seed scattered, a piece of suet 

 nailed up on a tree, a place cleared in the snow where gravel 

 stones can be picked up. 



or even three hundred pounds of honey : By not allowing the bees to 

 swarm, and thus .divide their strength, bee-keepers often get more 

 than three hundred pounds of comb-honey (in the little pound boxes 

 or sections) from a single hive. The bees themselves require only 

 about twenty to twenty-five pounds to carry them through the 

 winter. 



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the witch-hazels : The witch-hazels do not yield honey so far as the 

 author has observed. Suppose you watch this autumn to see if 

 the honey-bees (do you know a honey-bee when you see her ?) 

 visit it. Whence comes this quotation? From which poem of 



Bryant's: — 



" when come the calm, mild days." 



put on their storm-doors : In modern bee-hives there is a movable 

 board in front upon which the bees alight when entering the 

 hive ; this can be so turned as to make a large doorway for the 

 summer, and a small entrance for the cold winter. 

 whole drove of forty-six woodchucks : The author at one time had 

 forty-six inhabited woodchuck holes on his farm. 



