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BIRDS AND FLOWERS. 



pelted with the fragments of aeorns which the birds 

 were dropping from their beaks. A few days later, 

 while boating on the Contoocook, we heard a ham- 

 mering sound and discovered a bine jay pounding an 

 acorn on a limb after the manner of the nuthatch. 



We found a few edible though hardly ripe walnuts 

 and chestnuts on Rattlesnake, but we were not looking 

 at the hill from the small boy 's point of view, and the 

 sight of two hermit thrushes bathing in a pool as we 

 came down the path gave us more pleasure than a 

 whole bag of walnuts, chestnuts and butternuts com- 

 bined. 



Many people think that October is the loveliest 

 month of the year. There can be no question about 

 it this season. 



October 17, 1905. 



