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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_030
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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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60 are definitely useful to us, affording variety in diet for the birds. Frank teases me by indicating likely breeders, and suggesting, with the nearest he can come to a serious demeanor, that he turn them loose in the kitchen to raise our own; even lauding the novelty of Rancho Roacho as a name when the herd gets to doing nicely. I consider it expedient to make the expected display of temper when he acts up like that. Dec. 15 Mica shed her skin today for the ?th time. We are always surprised, for often she displays mere prodigality by shedding a skin far too good to be listed as second-hand. But our real surprise lay in the fact that she has a new pair of hind legs. About two months ago she cast off one hind leg; and two weeks later the other hind leg was abandoned. Perhaps it was a matter of mere pique; for they both looked like good legs to us. So for six weeks she has had only six legs. The new members are only about half length, but are perfectly formed, and they seem to function properly. Dec. 22 In the dining room we found today a lycosid spider of the same species as Minerva (L. carolinensis). It had probably been brought in with the old shingles which we are burning in the grate.
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Rights
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