Mink 
• 
space of bare ground to the brink of the canal where within 
less than six feet of me he paused, evidently suspicious of 
danger but apparently not seeing me. I could see his nose 
work like a dog's and his small, bead-like, expressionless 
eyes blink and twinkle as he raised his head and moved it 
from side to side, up and down with a carious rolling motion. 
The next instant he whirled and galloped back into the 
button bushes but as I did not move he soon reappeared and 
came warily to the canal again, but ufo en he turned back a 
second time he ran out of sight and sound without stopping. 
As nearly as I could make out, he scented but did not see me. 
The Mink appears to have aery poor eyesight, at least by 
daylight. This one was a young animal, nearly grown, of a 
uniform rich and rather dark brown, without a trace of the 
usual white on the chin and breast. 
Age of the 
j^Mr. Cyrus Clark came to my cabin at 3 P. M. and 
went with me over the Davis Hill land to estimate the value 
Davis Hill 
of the timber. He says that the pines are not less than 150 
pines 
to 200 years old and may be much older. They have not grown. 
perceptibly since he was a boy (60 years ago) and were con¬ 
sidered remarkable trees in those days when fine timber was 
here 
much more plentiful/than it is now^j 
C^^birds 
Night-hawk 
fPat took me home in his boat at sunset, I saw a 
flock of about 15 Cow-birds flying to roost, a Marsh Hawk, a 
kingfisher, a Night-hawk, and a Great Blue Heron on our way 
up the river. An old Song Sparrow sang oncer] 
