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Part of Iowa, May 1890

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was hurried into my hat, and with this between my teeth I descended.
With the certitude and inconsequence of happy boyhood, Peep-peep was
forthwith christened Moses, before I had reached the ground.

Well, in passing, let's clear up this name business once and for all;
for Moses remained her name. Moses es a name for a lady did not per-
fectly fits but I was so deed set in my way thet no quibble which had
to do with mere appropriateness could move me. Immune by the sheer
colorfulness of her history from all ills and menaces of chickendom,
Moses sped her allotted years unmolested and honored.

After much additional erosion mutually of bark and pants, I hed,
upon inventory, uot only a Set of three eggs of Accipiter cooperi
(Bonaparte), A.0.U. No. 333, but also two chicks (the third egg wes
a dud; too much bluing?) « . . two chicks, hatched by @ hawk from
hens' eggs. Upon both babies, of course, I bestowed @ rether frantic
love.

I wust edmit thet I gulped a little when I considered the bereft
state of lady Cooperi; but of course we Scientists when needful must be
downright in our methods; and whet could she do with barnyard chicks?
Her leck of adaptability and retiocinetion was plainly shown by the
diet she had chosen for them: a small garter-snakes two field mices
a ground-squirrel! - just feeture thet, when she should have pro-
vided chopped herd-boiled egg, and a little corn-meal soaked in water -

soaked long enough, mind, to prevent colic. - A very short review



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