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half an inch and more in diameter making it readily [easily]
recognized.  At noon I was on Franklin R'd where it
leaves the falls, as I ascended the hillside and took 
my lunch at the spring.  After finishing my lunch,
while descending the hillside I noticed a terrapin [turtle] wallowing
in pile of human excrement.  I have on several occasions
seen these creatures eating mushrooms, but this is the first
time I have ever seen <s>them</s> one in an act of this kind.
Whether he was eating the stuff or something in it I could
not tell for on my approach he quickly left the place
and made for the thicket.  Nothing particularly interesting
was found along Franklin R'd.  I could have spent my time
perhaps profitably in another direction - in collecting beer
bottles.  My report then, instead of being how many plants
were found in flower, new fruits, etc. would have been the 
number of varieties of beers consumed; to-day, even a wine
bottle was seen.  Beer bottles and whiskey flasks are found
strewn on each side of our country roads.  I reached Gwynn
Oak Park about 3 o'clock, rested for an hour then took
the car for home.
        