WT5v (-3-Q 
1898 
March 17 
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I saw to-day where Rabbits had barked oaks and young 
barked 
hemlocks, and where Mice had barked a cluster of small pitch 
by 
pines — eating, besides the bark, a great quantity of pine 
Rabbits 
needles, which had colored their excrement green. The 
Rabbits had worked two feet or more above the ground on 
the surface of the snow, the Mice close to the ground. The 
Rabbits had scored the stems of the trees with broad, deep 
furrows like the grooves made by a small gouge but the trees 
barked by the Mice looked as if they had been scraped with 
a rasp or coarse file. 
March 18 
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As we were eating breakfast a very large Red Squirrel 
visited the meat-bone hanging in the oak by the cabin door 
and helped himself liberally. A few minutes after he had gone, 
another and smaller one, doubtless his mate, appeared and took 
his turn at the bone. 
After breakfast I launched the canoe and paddled down 
river, hugging the wooded western shore to keep out of the 
wind as well as for the pleasure of exploring all the pretty 
little covew and channels which the present high stage of 
water makes so accessible and attractive. 
At the eastern end of Ball's Hill I saw a large 
Gray Squirrel feasting on the buds of a maple that stood 
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