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A SUBURBAN RAMBLE 
have been forced to live on coarser food* Holes 
drilled by a Woodpecker in search of insect food are 
of obvious purpose* Throughout all the activities 
of the lower orders we see the regular sequence 
of cause and effect* In the distant forest a mark 
on a tree will show where a deer has rubbed the 
withered velvet from his horns* But who would 
attempt to fathom the multitudinous impulses 
that have prompted a lonely wayfarer to carve with 
evident care a peculiar design on a Silver Birch in 
the most secluded hollow of the suburban woods i 
