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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1900_004
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1900
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Date
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1900
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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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4 did we took the cage away so that he should not have the wires to further spoil his plumage. We have fixed a ladder so that he can get onto the curved back of the chair to sleep; and he usually goes there. The other birds do not molest him. If they get too near he open That Yellow Mouth. March 2 Fred Burnett saw robins today. March 7 Olus comes to all of us freely, and grows tamer every day. Several times at evening he has cuddled down on my shoulder and acted as though he wanted to stay there; but I never had leisure to see whether he would really go to sleep there, until last night. Just at dusk I went into the room; he was on top of the broom, which stood handle down in the corner. He flew to my shoulder as usual, and after running round and round my neck he finally snuggled down on my right shoulder close to my face, and tucked his head "under his wing"- as the unobservant say- in the most bewitching way.- I had to leave the room after a time; and when I attempted to put him back on his favorite perch he refused to stay, returning four or five times to my shoulders- until finally I simply had to duck and run. Origold has become much more accurate in flight than when I first let her out of the cage. She rules the bird-room, chasing the sparrows and Olus from the bath dish, or from any perch which they chance to occupy when she goes on the rampage. She has a queer way of opening her beak, ruffling her feathers and looking the picture of a scold-as well as being one. Olus is paying considerable attention to her, following her about the room; but she does not
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Rights
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