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den vegetables, there were Yellow-Dock, Lemon Balm, 
Hyssop, Gill-go-over-the-ground, Mouse-ear, Chick-weed, 
Roman Wormwood, Elecampane, and other plants. As 
we stood there, I saw a fish-hawk stoop to pick a fish out 
of his pond. 
, There,” said I, he has got a fish.” 
Well,” said the old man, who was looking all the 
while, but could see nothing, ‘‘ he did n’t dive, he just 
wet his claws.” 
And, sure enough, he did not this time, though it is 
said that they often do, but he merely stooped low enough 
to pick him out with his talons ; but as he bore his shin¬ 
ing prey over the bushes, it fell to the ground, and we 
did not see that he recovered it. That is not their prac¬ 
tice. 
Thus, having had another crack with the old man, he 
standing bareheaded under the eaves, he directed us 
‘‘ athwart the fields,” and we took to the beach again for 
another day, it being now late in the morning. 
It was but a day or two after this that the safe of the 
Provincetown Bank was broken open and robbed by two 
men from the interior, and we learned that our hospi¬ 
table entertainers did at least transiently harbor the sus¬ 
picion that we were the men. 
