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SEPTEMBER 1st. 
Black Bear — its Food — Appetite for Pork — Andecote — Mode of Fighting 
— Depredations on the Indian Corn — Farmer's Revenge. — Wolves. — 
Everlasting. — Mallow. — Cherries. — Fire- weed. — Sumach. — Wild 
Gooseberry. — Canadian Blackberry. — Bugs on Fruit. — Needle Ichneu- 
mon. — Thistle. — Fields of Grain. — Harvesting Wheat. — Cradling. — 
Frosts. — Climbing Buck-wheat. — Tints of Foliage.- — Pigeons. — Larva 
of Tiger Swallow-tail Of Muff Moth— Of Puss Moths.— Curious 
Caterpillar with clubbed Hairs — Other Caterpillars — Of Camberwell 
Beauty — of Twin-eyed Hawk-moth.~Black Sirex. — Fire-fly. — Fulgora. 
— Black Crickets. — Cicadse. — Singular Forms of Insects. 
Charles. — A woman came running to our house last 
evening, about twilight^ almost dead with fright^ saying that 
a bear had run out of the woods at her, close by our bridge^ 
and pursued her some distance up the hill ; and some few 
minutes after^ a neighbour going down the road to the mill, 
smelt a bear pretty close to him, which was probably the 
same individual. 
Father. - — Several Black Bears f Ursus Americanm J 
have lately been seen in this neighbourhood : they do not in 
general attack a man^ unless rendered desperate by hunger ; 
but it is said they will pursue women or children. An 
instance lately occurred, in which a man^ perceiving a bear 
lying in the road^ was rash enough to dismount from his 
horse^ and attack him with the butt-end of his riding- whip ; 
but;, as might have been expected, he met with a formidable 
antagonist, and had nearly suffered for his temerity. He_, 
