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circumference, 9-l/2 Indies 
thickness at bottom 9/l2 inches 
outside, hark, fibers and very fine 
grass. Stuck over v/ith wool, lichens, leaves 
and spiders webs. Lined v/ith pine needles. To 
get the needles it had to go a mile in one 
direction and to get the wool a half mile in the 
other. 
M arch 21, 1900 - Wednesday . 
Went hunting this forenoon. It wa3 cold 
and saw nothing but homed larks. Sat down out 
the wind and watched a pair of white-breasted 
nuthatches. Farther on 1 saw one hairy and one 
red-headed woodpecker. 
On my v/ay home a pair of prarie horned 
larks sat on a fence and did not stir until 1 
was 5 feet away and then only dropped down in 
the grass. It was hard to see them because their 
backs were brown. 
March 22, 1900 - Thursday . 
At noon four of we boys were out by the 
cistern. We were talking and laughing when 
suddenly the male downy woodpecker came. He ate 
the suet from the live elm by the maple. We were 
not 10 feet away. A lady came by on the walk and 
passed within 3 feet of him. He went around the 
tree till she had passed. He ate for about 5 
minutes and then after wiping his bill on the 
tree flew off. 
This afternoon a white-breasted nuthatch 
ate some suet in the big maple. 
Tonight about 5 oclock Clarence Cook and 
I were sitting on our woodpile when we heard the 
kep kep kep ken kip of a robin. We both jumped 
up and I ran In the house to get my glass. 
Clarence had found that he was in one of Trumble’s 
trees. We found him out by the barn. He was 
calling from the top of an elm. He was quite wild 
