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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_013
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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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43 They investigate every cranny about the rooms, and pry about the gas fixtures and the curtains. I let the whole flock out of the cage for exercise every day or two, and they are getting very nimble. The orioles quickly learned to calculate distances and to alight gracefully. The grosbeaks were much more awkward, and are just beginning to get around with something like ease. The orioles are grace itself in every movement, and their smooth and perfect plumage gives them a dainty appearance. Their diet is varied from day to day, and consists of seeds, graham bread, graham crackers, apple, tomato, blackberries, green corn, corn meal, plantain, finely cut raw beef; with a thoroughly crushed hard-boiled egg when they do not have meat. All partake of the same diet, except that the orioles do not eat many seeds, and when they do they swallow them whole. They have grown much tamer, all feeding from our fingers and biting and pecking us in a friendly way when we put our fingers into the cage. The grosbeaks have almost quit their begging. Only occasionally a note of it being heard. Aug. 13 The bird family is molting. The grosbeaks have become the most ragged citizens imaginable. Up to this time they have gotten along without names, but the woebegone appearance of the male has fixed upon him the name of Tatters. The female we have decided to call Fluff, a name that suited her admirably before she began to molt. Tatters long
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Rights
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