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Title
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Omaha Bird Records, Feb.-May, 1903
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Date
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Feb.-May, 1903
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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3 captured, and we never could get the wildness out of him. He had a great store of husked seeds, each "face-ful" impacted in a little mass by his saliva, hidden under the cotton. In lieu of an epitaph, I produce the note recording his arrival in our family: April 14, 1901.-Several days ago (the date has escaped; it was about April 10) we heard of a chipmunk in the possession of a boy in the neighborhood, and Elizabeth at once negotiated for its possession; this she accomplished for 75 cents. When the chipmunk was brought to us we found to our surprise and delight that it sic of a western , mountain species, and inquiries disclosed that it had been brought by a traveling man from Colorado, who had been forced to dispose of it because he could not care fir it in his many hotels. Since then it had passed through numerous hands; we are the fifth Omaha "owners." It is a beautiful little creature, little larger than a white-footed mouse. March 8 Yesterday and today have been ideal spring days, warm and bright. Had the ground been dry I would have undertaken a trip of some kind, but it was very wet and the walking bad. I therefore contented myself at home, with the exception that I made two trips to the wooded lot in search of tiger beetles, which I had hoped to see on their earliest emergence from their tunnels. They were very much in evidence today, skipping about the perpendicular face of the loess bank and peaking over clods like old times. I captured nine with my net. I spent a half hour in one spot, as nearly motionless as possible, watching three holes, not over nine inches apart, each with a beetle willing and anxious to emerge, but not daring to do so with that large, strange object in their front year. My face was less than two feet from the holes, and many times
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Rights
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