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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_001
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2
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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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31 but she takes it readily from the end of a hat-pin, and if it struggles she envelopes it in a web. July 1 The sparrow has learned to chase and catch his own grasshoppers when we turn them loose on the floor. He comes to us unhesitatingly for a fly or a grasshopper. He has developed a very spicy temper, biting and pecking us in a plucky way if we disturb him when he is sleepy, or of late if we catch and hold him too closely to our hands. He has selected as his roost a bunch of bittersweet lodged behind and projecting at the side of a framed picture hanging on the wall. July 2 yellow warbler rose-breasted grosbeak indigo bunting orchard oriole wood thrush red-eyed towhee downy woodpecker kingbird mourning dove field sparrow dickcissel catbird robin bobwhite western yellowthroat chimney swift Bell's vireo yellow-billed cuckoo brown thrasher At about one o'clock we went again to the Poor Farm woods. We found the young grosbeaks still in the nest. A slight shake of the limb brought one of them fluttering down. It lit among the bushes, andI soon found it and took it in my hands. Frank climbed up to where he could look into the nest, and seeing that one of the birds had extremely delicate pink edgings to its wings, he took a stick and gave it a little poke, and it came fluttering down. The other little bird remained in the nest. The two which we took are evidently male and female, one of them showing no trace of the pink, having instead buff edgings to its wings. We took them across the road, a
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