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noticing several trees which seemed laden with persimmons
we decided to visit them in the day time.  We soon came
to the trees, found them quite filled with fruit, which, although
a good size was somewhat astringent.  We proceeded now
to the ravine.  I had taken a basket so as to take home
a little moss, the ground, however, was quite frozen, and
although we passed many fine patches we could not collect
them.  We now determined to find the hornet's nest, found
2 weeks ago, but which we were not able to locate last
week.  In this search we noticed a little stream of water which was
very rapidly, following
it up we found that it came from the foot of a hill.
No doubt a very nice spring can be made here.  If so, the
hillside would make a very desirable camp.  We now, kept 
down in the lowland, and soon I noticed a nest which
had attracted my attention when last standing close <s>to</s> under the
hornet's nest; examining the ground, several large pieces
of hornet's nest were found;  looking up, a small fragment
of the nest was till to be seen; afterwards more pieces
were noticed on the ground.  Examining some of the cells
        