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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_015
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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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14 the mother bird setting. A completed nest of brown thrasher; no eggs. These were in hedgerows. In trees about the house I have found three nests of the brown thrasher - ½, 1/1, 1/0; also another nest of mourning dove. May 12 The farm, Reno Co., Kansas Fay, the boy who helps with farm work, came to the house an hour before noon and reported that he had run into a quail's nest in cultivating the corn. The bird in leaving the nest had got tangled up in the cultivator, but escaped apparently unhurt with the loss of a few feathers. He did not know what condition the eggs were in; had not stopped to see. I went with him to the place and found the completely covered, a heavy clod having been turned over it in such a way as to form a roof. There was a quantity of loose earth in the nest, and I could not tell whether any of the eggs were broken until I had lifted them out, one at a time - eighteen in all, and none of them injured! They were perfectly fresh, and almost without nest stains. Of course after the accident to the nest the bird would have deserted, so I was fortunate in getting such a beautiful set out of the mix-up. The nest was on the ridge between the furrows, hollowed into the ground and lined with grasses. A last year's corn stalk with a bulky root was almost over the nest, but whether originally three or thrown there by the cultivator I could not say. May 13 Went for a ride on the pony, and saw my first prairie chickens. In the
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