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Moles or 
Shrews 
so distinct that usually not only the toes hut their 
claws as well had left a clear cast. Besides Rabbit tracks 
I saw only those of Mice and perhaps of Shrews, also. 
On a sunny slope of Ball 1 s Hill where there was no snow 
and where the ground was covered thickly with dry leaves 
a small, dark slaty Mole or large Shrew crossed a narrow 
path within six feet of me, darting across as swiftly and 
quite as silently as a shadow. On going to the spot I 
found that it had a tunnel above the ground but under the 
leaves which were soggy and more or less frozen together 
in a mat of several inches in thickness. The tunnel was 
broken by the foot-path and in many other places was more 
or less open above, forming a deep trench not quite 
roofed over. I see many similar tunnels in the snow. 
Miller thinks they are the work of Field Mice but the 
animal I saw to-day was certainly either a Mole or a Shrew, 
I think the latter. 
_After cutting down some small trees (where my 
hut is to stand) and burning the brush on the river ice, I 
started for toxvn at 4 P.M. It was beginning to snow and by 
the time we reached the house the ground was quite white 
in the fields. Jays were screaming on Ball's Hill this 
morning and Crows cawing in the distance^) 
5T 
