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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_019
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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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18 Friday it contained two eggs; Sunday they were gone. Monday there was another laid in the nest, and today the nest is again empty. My only evidence against the jays is their presence, and the fact that there is a lively quarrel between them and the brown thrashers in the plum thicket where the thrashers still have two nests. I have located a bluejay's nest which yesterday had two eggs. At ten o'clock tonight, a full moon shining from a clear sky, I heard the killdeer flying over. Discovered another nest of the mockingbird in one of the mulberry trees back of the garden; no eggs yet. Quite likely it belongs to birds from which I took the four eggs on May 15. That nest had a foundation of sticks, the nest proper being made of fiber and strings and lined with rootlets. It was rather a clumsy looking structure outside, but neat and compact within. May 25 My last day on the farm. I took a tour of all the nests before I left, and found that the new mockingbirds' nest had two eggs. The dove which had such a cozy nest where the tree branches three feet from the ground, is on the eve of having a family to care for. The eggs were "pipped" when I saw them about noon, and I was hopeful that they might yield up their treasures before I had to leave in the middl eof the afternoon; but they did not. On the way to town at the Kimball farm I secured what I had been hoping
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Rights
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