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but none so heavily loaded as were those on Meeting- 

 house Hill in Bow, which the writer visited a week 

 ago. It is good fun to keep the hazel boughs in a 

 warm room for the sake of hearing the drying nuts 

 pop open. They explode with a crack, sending the 

 black seeds up to the ceiling or across the room. 

 Thoreau used to gather them every fall for this pur- 

 pose. 



As we came out to the Fiske pasture on the northern 

 slope of the hill we saw that it was one of those rare 

 blue days when the horizon is rimmed with moun- 

 tains, each distinct as ships at sea. The Franconia 

 range was particularly clear, and Lafayette with 

 Flume by its side stood out nobly, a large and a small 

 pyramid against the blue. One of our number was 

 sure that she saw the house on Moosilauke, and as she 

 is a clergyman's daughter we could not gainsay her, 

 especially as we ourselves had once seen it from Gar- 

 vin Hill. The Sandwich range and Washington are 

 not visible from Rattlesnake, being hidden by Bean 

 Hill in Northfield, which one of our members says 

 should be called Mean Hill. 



The writer is often asked for a list of the moun- 

 tains seen from Rattlesnake Hill. The prominent 

 summits and a few of the near-by hills are here given 



