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Title
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Thomas County, July 3-11, July 27-30, 1911
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Date
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July 3-11, July 27-30, 1911
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-1911-0152.jpg
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Transcription
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23 … extract: “Started out this afternoon for the sandhills — my pet blow-out — but had gone only about 200 yards from the front gate when I found a large lycosid [member of lycosidae, wolf spider, family] tunnel” — the Lycosids are in the main tunnel-inhabiting spiders — “and stopped to take photographs. Various methods of coaxing the spider out were tried, but she would not come, though she struck viciously at a straw thrust a few inches below the entrance. At this juncture a wandering Pasimachus [genus of ground beetle] ” — this is a large black beetle — “came by, and I put him down the hole. There was something doing at once, and when Pasimachus returned to the surface he evinced a liking for tall and distant timber; but I waived his preference and put him down again. Several efforts of this kind got the lycosid so excited that she came rushing out at last, and I took her photograph.” This tunnel on excavation proved to be only four inches in extent, which is unusually short. I do not say much about spiders in these notes, but throughout the summer they came in for much attention, and I collected hundreds of specimens from every imaginable location — from tunnels, holes in the ground, webs between twigs or grasses or flowers, from the summit of bare buttes, from blow-outs, from the surface of ponds, from concealment under logs or stones; many of them were swept from vegetation by means of a net or beaten from pines and cedars or from deciduous trees in the various regions which we visited. The spiders of Nebraska have not been studied, and it was my aim to get together a collection for classification during the winter. So between remarks about other things there might appear much about spiders, were it not for the fact that I have concluded to eliminate such notes for the sake of brevity, though in the midst of all these pages the statement is unconvincing. Teddy is venerable Maltese cat who has for many years held an honored position on the Forest Reserve staff. One night Teddy had a battle, which disturbed the men who were sleeping outside the quarters, as several of them prefer to do, and on investigation they found that Teddy’s opponent was a weasel. Teddy was the victor after a hard fight, and later in the day donated the skin
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