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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_003
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1
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Date
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1899
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Creator
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Elizabeth Van Sant
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Description
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Elizabeth Van Sant transcribed letters
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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2 a little group of chickadees and creepers making a great fuss. We at first thought they were scolding each other, but soon discovered the cause to be a squirrel lying flat along a limb. His attitude was innocent enough, but the birds regarded him with suspicion. Fed each of the four spiders a cockroach. Even Cider ate one with eagerness - the second one she has taken in all th weeks we have had her. She saw it immediately after it was put into the cage, and went after it much as our jumping-spiders (Attidae spp.) used to do, and soon caught it. All of the spiders are showing almost the activity of summer days; since the baseburner was started they have shown no signs of feeling the cold. Robinson got out of his cage a week or so ago and raced across the floor at a speed that taxed our faculties to keep track of him. Nova has lost the tips of a couple of her legs, consequently can not climb about as nimbly as she earlier could. She was continually trying to climb up the glossy paper which ocvered the door of her cage, as she used to do, but invariably she would fall back. I covered the door with canton flannel to give her a foothold, and she seems more contented. Jan 18. Saw the Carolina nuthatch at 29th and Pacific this morning. Jan 19. The nuthatch was again seen in the same place. Also a downy woodpecker. Jan. 24 Saw the hairy woodpecker at 29th and Mason.
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Rights
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