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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_022
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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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52 It was not due to carelessness, or forgetfulness. A hole had newly broken in the firepot of the stove, of which I knew nothing, and there was draft enough to get the fire under full head with the stove shut tight. My last act before leaving the house was to take a quick survey of the cages, which were about six feet from the stove, to see that the birds lacked nothing. It seems almost incredible that probably within an hour three of the birds were dead. Oct. 29 Today we took Olus' photograph. Nov. 12 Our empty cages have made us so lonely that Father has been looking around the bird stores to see if by any chance he would find either grosbeaks or orioles. He came home today and said that there was an oriole in one of the stores, and a wood thrush. At first the thought was not pleasant one to me to me , of putting in other birds; but just to please him we went with him to the bird store. One look at the oriole, almost the counterpart of our lost Orie, settled the matter; and the wood thrush looked so out of place and unhappy that we promptly bought the two and brought them home. The oriole is very bright and active, and to our great disappointment does not get along well with Olus. She assumed the aggressive and chased him about so shamefully, or shamelessly, that we had to put them in separate cages. She seemed quite tame; at the store she took food freely from the man's fingers. When out of curiosity we asked him what kind of bird she
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Rights
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