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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_009
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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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39 that we let him stay there through the day, but when dark comes he gets restless until we let him go to his bittersweet. At two o'clock we went to the Poor Farm woods - Miss Miskimins Frank and I. Frank and I were prowling about in different directions looking for nest. In the bushes Frank came suddenly upon a "quail" or bobwhite on the ground at his feet; he made a grab and succeeded in catching it. We wished to snap a photograph of it as we released it. We selected a place in the grass and set up the tripod, arranging and focusing the camera for an oblique view from a distance of about four feet. Frank held his hands lightly on the bird, while I managed the camera. When all was ready, on a signal Frank took his hands swiftly away and I pressed the bulb, the shutter having been set at 1/100 second. . . . The bird, instead of taking flight, merely limped away, and we readily caught it. Frank though the he might have hurt it in catching it; but it seemed to me that if it had been all right in the first place he never could have got so near to it, let alone catch it. The bird was evidently badly injured or perhaps suffering from malady; there was no indication of a gunshot would for the skin was unbroken and the leg and wing bones whole. We were terribly upset over the matter, but thought best to kill it humanely. We got a very good picture, but we can not take pleasure in viewing it. The little towhee had flown from the nest. - We found a dove's nest with two eggs.
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Rights
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